Dynamic bioinks to advance bioprinting

FLC Morgan, L Moroni, MB Baker - Advanced healthcare …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The development of bioinks for bioprinting of cell‐laden constructs remains a challenge for
tissue engineering, despite vigorous investigation. Hydrogels to be used as bioinks must …

Lyme disease pathogenesis

J Coburn, B Garcia, LT Hu, MW Jewett… - Current issues in …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Lyme disease Borrelia are obligately parasitic, tick-transmitted, invasive, persistent bacterial
pathogens that cause disease in humans and non-reservoir vertebrates primarily through …

Cell monolayers sense curvature by exploiting active mechanics and nuclear mechanoadaptation

M Luciano, SL Xue, WH De Vos, L Redondo-Morata… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
The early development of many organisms involves the folding of cell monolayers, but this
behaviour is difficult to reproduce in vitro; therefore, both mechanistic causes and effects of …

Stem cell mechanobiology and the role of biomaterials in governing mechanotransduction and matrix production for tissue regeneration

SM Naqvi, LM McNamara - Frontiers in bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Mechanobiology has underpinned many scientific advances in understanding how
biophysical and biomechanical cues regulate cell behavior by identifying mechanosensitive …

Interactions between muscle and bone—where physics meets biology

M Herrmann, K Engelke, R Ebert, S Müller-Deubert… - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Muscle and bone interact via physical forces and secreted osteokines and myokines.
Physical forces are generated through gravity, locomotion, exercise, and external devices …

Insight into mechanobiology: how stem cells feel mechanical forces and orchestrate biological functions

C Argentati, F Morena, I Tortorella, M Bazzucchi… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
The cross-talk between stem cells and their microenvironment has been shown to have a
direct impact on stem cells' decisions about proliferation, growth, migration, and …

Mechanical properties of single cells: Measurement methods and applications

Y Hao, S Cheng, Y Tanaka, Y Hosokawa… - Biotechnology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Cell mechanical properties, eg elastic and shear modulus, play vital roles in cell activities
and functions, such as cell growth, cell division, cell motion, and cell adhesion …

[HTML][HTML] Steering cell behavior through mechanobiology in 3D: a regenerative medicine perspective

J Zonderland, L Moroni - Biomaterials, 2021 - Elsevier
Mechanobiology, translating mechanical signals into biological ones, greatly affects cellular
behavior. Steering cellular behavior for cell-based regenerative medicine approaches …

Trends in mechanobiology guided tissue engineering and tools to study cell-substrate interactions: a brief review

AK Rajendran, D Sankar, S Amirthalingam… - Biomaterials …, 2023 - Springer
Sensing the mechanical properties of the substrates or the matrix by the cells and the
tissues, the subsequent downstream responses at the cellular, nuclear and epigenetic levels …

All-covalent nuclease-resistant and hydrogel-tethered DNA hairpin probes map pN cell traction forces

SA Rashid, Y Dong, H Ogasawara… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cells sense and respond to the physical properties of their environment through receptor-
mediated signaling, a process known as mechanotransduction, which can modulate critical …