ReviewNature cell biology2017
Quantifying forces in cell biology.
Review in Nature cell biology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 225 papers.
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225 citing papers in PubMed.
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Abstract
Cells exert, sense, and respond to physical forces through an astounding diversity of mechanisms. Here we review recently developed tools to quantify the forces generated by cells. We first review technologies based on sensors of known or assumed mechanical properties, and discuss their applicability and limitations. We then proceed to draw an analogy between these human-made sensors and force sensing in the cell. As mechanics is increasingly revealed to play a fundamental role in cell function we envisage that tools to quantify physical forces may soon become widely applied in life-sciences laboratories.
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