Mechanical Causation of Biological Structure: Productive Pulls Produce Persistent Filaments in a Human Fibroblast Model of Matrix Development

AA Silverman, SM Siadat, JD Olszewski, JW Ruberti - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
The principal mechanisms driving the synthesis and organization of durable animal structure
have been the subject of intense investigation for decades. Here, we present evidence that …

Method for measurement of collagen monomer orientation in fluorescence microscopy

RP Alzola, SM Siadat, A Gajjar… - Journal of …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Significance: Collagen is the most abundant protein in vertebrates and is found in tissues
that regularly experience tension, compression, and shear forces. However, the underlying …