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ArticleJournal of physics D: Applied physics2017

Review of Cellular Mechanotransduction.

Ning Wang

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Article in Journal of physics D: Applied physics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 72 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

72 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Ning WangSchool of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China; Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.

Funding

Bioengineering to map stress propagation in cytoskeletonR01GM072744 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI Ning Wang · 2005 to 2026
$7.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM072744
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Living cells and tissues experience physical forces and chemical stimuli in a human body. The process of converting mechanical forces into biochemical activities and gene expression is mechanochemical transduction or mechanotransduction. Significant advances have been made in understanding mechanotransduction at cellular and molecular levels over the last two decades. However, major challenges remain in elucidating how a living cell integrates signals from mechanotransduction with chemical signals to regulate gene expression and to generate coherent biological responses in living tissues in physiological conditions and diseases.

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PMID29097823
PMCPMC5662120

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