ReviewNature materials2018
Biomaterials and engineered microenvironments to control YAP/TAZ-dependent cell behaviour.
Review in Nature materials, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 125 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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125 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 271 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Hidden Power of the Secretome: Therapeutic Potential on Wound Healing and Cell-Free Regenerative Medicine-A Systematic Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Pooled it
- Carbon-based two-dimensional nanomaterials (CB-2DMs) for high-performance wound healing platforms bridging mechanics and medicine.Discover nano · 2026Review
- Flexible high-resolution ECM micropatterning.Nature protocols · 2026Review
- Substrate curvature and stiffness equivalence in governing cell mechanosensing.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Stress-responsive membrane proteins as execution nodes of tumor cell adaptation to microenvironmental stress.Oncogene · 2026Review
- Timing Mechanotransduction: Mechanically Dynamic Biomaterials Reveal the Temporal Hierarchy of YAP/TAZ Control Nodes.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Natural Polymers in Tissue Engineering and Regeneration: Material-Cell Mechanotransduction, Biofabrication Strategies, and Clinical Translation.Biomedicines · 2026Review
- Single-Step Extrusion Printing of Microgrooved Annulus Fibrosus Scaffolds via Patterned Nozzles.Journal of functional biomaterials · 2026Article
- The Synthetic Extracellular Matrix as a Maestro of the In Vitro Stem Cell Niche: Orchestrating Fate and Function.Biomedicines · 2026Review
- Evidence for Drop-Like Nuclear Deformation in Sheared Endothelial Monolayers.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026Article
- Mechano-matching hydrogel patch promotes myocardial infarction repair via YAP-Bcl-2 pathway activation.Materials today. Bio · 2026Article
- Hydroxypropyl methylcellulose stearoxy ether hydrogel loaded withFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2026Article
- Generation of a human vascularized 3D airway model replicating native mucosal heterogeneity.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2026Article
- Aerogel library with varying porous structures and mechanics regulates motor neuron progenitor differentiation for spinal cord injury repair.Materials today. Bio · 2025Article
- Recent Advances in Periodontal Regenerative Medicine: A Focus on the Role of Mechanical Stimulation.Biomedicines · 2025Review
- Microtubule architecture connects AMOT stability to YAP/TAZ mechanotransduction and Hippo signalling.Nature cell biology · 2025Article
- Probing the physical hallmarks of cancer.Nature methods · 2025Review
- Mechanobiological engineering strategies for organoid culture.APL bioengineering · 2025Review
- FAK Differentially Mechanoregulates Cell Migration during Wound Closure.ACS biomaterials science & engineering · 2025Article
- Cell migration in diabetic wound healing: Molecular mechanisms and therapeutic strategies (Review).International journal of molecular medicine · 2025Review
65 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Mechanical signals are increasingly recognized as overarching regulators of cell behaviour, controlling stemness, organoid biology, tissue development and regeneration. Moreover, aberrant mechanotransduction is a driver of disease, including cancer, fibrosis and cardiovascular defects. A central question remains how cells compute a host of biomechanical signals into meaningful biological behaviours. Biomaterials and microfabrication technologies are essential to address this issue. Here we review a large body of evidence that connects diverse biomaterial-based systems to the functions of YAP/TAZ, two highly related mechanosensitive transcriptional regulators. YAP/TAZ orchestrate the response to a suite of engineered microenviroments, emerging as a universal control system for cells in two and three dimensions, in static or dynamic fashions, over a range of elastic and viscoelastic stimuli, from solid to fluid states. This approach may guide the rational design of technological and material-based platforms with dramatically improved functionalities and inform the generation of new biomaterials for regenerative medicine applications.
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