Engineered cell culture microenvironments for mechanobiology studies of brain neural cells

L Castillo Ransanz, PFJ Van Altena… - … in bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The biomechanical properties of the brain microenvironment, which is composed of different
neural cell types, the extracellular matrix, and blood vessels, are critical for normal brain …

Non-contact elastography methods in mechanobiology: a point of view

S Caponi, A Passeri, G Capponi, D Fioretto… - European Biophysics …, 2022 - Springer
In recent decades, mechanobiology has emerged as a novel perspective in the context of
basic biomedical research. It is now widely recognized that living cells respond not only to …

Atomic Force Microscopy Principles and Recent Studies of Imaging and Nanomechanical Properties in Bacteria

HH Torres-Ventura, JJ Chanona-Pérez… - Biogenic …, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
There are two main modes in where it operates, imaging and force spectroscopy; the first
one is divided into three major mode categories, which are contact, non-contact, and …