Cells interact mechanically with their surroundings by exerting and sensing forces. Traction force microscopy (TFM), purported to map cell-generated forces or stresses, represents an important tool that has powered the rapid advances in mechanobiolog...
Mapping the biochemical composition of eukaryotic cells without the use of exogenous labels is a long-sought objective in cell biology. Recently, it has been shown that composition maps on dry single bacterial cells with nanoscale spatial resolution ...
Biochemical and biophysical research communications
Apr 8, 2021
Acquiring events massively from single-molecule force spectroscopy (SMFS) experiments, which is crucial for revealing important biophysical information, is usually not straightforward. A significant amount of human labor is usually required to identi...
Journal of chemical theory and computation
Mar 29, 2021
Several experimental studies indicated that large conformational changes, including partial domain unfolding, have a role in the functional mechanisms of the basic helix loop helix Per/ARNT/SIM (bHLH-PAS) transcription factors. Recently, single-molec...
The maturation or activation status of dendritic cells (DCs) directly correlates with their behavior and immunofunction. A common means to determine the maturity of dendritic cells is from high-resolution images acquired via scanning electron microsc...
Computer methods in biomechanics and biomedical engineering
Aug 10, 2020
In order to have research on the deformation characteristics and mechanical properties of human red blood cells (RBCs), finite element models of RBC optical tweezers stretching and atomic force microscope (AFM) indentation were established. Non-linea...
Undersampling is a simple but efficient way to increase the imaging rate of atomic force microscopy (AFM). One major challenge in this approach is that of accurate image reconstruction from a limited number of measurements. In this work, we present a...
BACKGROUND: Atomic force microscopy (AFM) allows the mechanical characterization of single cells and live tissue by quantifying force-distance (FD) data in nano-indentation experiments. One of the main problems when dealing with biological tissue is ...
From cancer diagnosis to detailed characterization of arterial wall biomechanics, the elastic property of tissues is widely studied as an early sign of disease onset. The fibrous structural features of tissues are a direct measure of its health and f...
Materials science & engineering. C, Materials for biological applications
Dec 27, 2018
In this study, quartz crystal microbalance sensors based on molecular imprinting technology were fabricated for real-time detection of insulin in aqueous solution and artificial plasma. This study describes the preparation of insulin imprinted poly(h...
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