ArticleNano letters2022
Migration and 3D Traction Force Measurements inside Compliant Microchannels.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 40 citations in OpenAlex.
- Nuclear mechanobiology in confined cell migration.Nucleus (Austin, Tex.) · 2026Review
- CFM: confinement force microscopy-a dynamic, precise and stable microconfiner for traction force microscopy in spatial confinement.Nature methods · 2026Article
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- Measurement of cellular traction forces during confined migration.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Engineered In Vitro Platforms for Mechanochemical Control of Cell Migration.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2025Review
- Cytoplasmic anillin and Ect2 promote RhoA/myosin II-dependent confined migration and invasion.Nature materials · 2025Article
- Isolation, Extraction, and Analysis of Cells After Confined Migration.Current protocols · 2025Article
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- Confined Migration Drives Stem Cell Differentiation.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Navigating confinement: Mechanotransduction and metabolic adaptation.Current opinion in cell biology · 2025Review
- Confinement by Liquid-Liquid Interface Replicates In Vivo Neutrophil Deformations and Elicits Bleb-Based Migration.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Unjamming Transition as a Paradigm for Biomechanical Control of Cancer Metastasis.Cytoskeleton (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2025Review
- Regulation of cell migration by extracellular matrix mechanics at a glance.Journal of cell science · 2025Review
- Direct current electrical fields inhibit cancer cell motility in microchannel confinements.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Extracellular fluid viscosity regulates human mesenchymal stem cell lineage and function.Science advances · 2025Article
- Frontiers in mechanobiology and mechanomedicine.Med-X · 2025Article
- Confinement-sensitive volume regulation dynamics via high-speed nuclear morphological measurements.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- 3D confinement alters smooth muscle cell responses to chemical and mechanical cues.APL bioengineering · 2024Article
- Coordinated in confined migration: crosstalk between the nucleus and ion channel-mediated mechanosensation.Trends in cell biology · 2024Review
- Confinement controls the directional cell responses to fluid forces.Cell reports · 2024Article
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Authors and funding
11 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.
Alexandros AfthinosDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Maryland 21218, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-6906-0771
Kaustav BeraDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Maryland 21218, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-0962-4368
Junjie ChenJohns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Maryland 21218, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3258-0236
Altug OzcelikkaleDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Maryland 21218, United States.
Alice AmitranoDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Maryland 21218, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-7919-2225
Mohammad Ikbal ChoudhuryJohns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Maryland 21218, United States.
Randy HuangJohns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Maryland 21218, United States.
Pavlos PachidisDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Maryland 21218, United States.
Panagiotis MistriotisDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Maryland 21218, United States.
Yun ChenJohns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Maryland 21218, United States.
Konstantinos KonstantopoulosDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Maryland 21218, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-2623-1459
Johns Hopkins University · US
Funding
The interplay of ion transporters and cytoskeleton in breast cancer migration and metastasisR01CA254193 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI KONSTANTOPOULOS, KONSTANTINOS, MARTIN, STUART S · 2021 to 2025
$2.7MViscotaxis: Novel cell migration mechanisms regulated by microenvironmental viscosityR01CA257647 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI KONSTANTOPOULOS, KONSTANTINOS · 2021 to 2025
$2.3MCell mechanobiology in confinement using an integration of bioengineering, materials systems and in vivo modelsR01GM142175 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI KONSTANTOPOULOS, KONSTANTINOS · 2021 to 2024
$1.8MTension-Sensitive Drug Release System to Enhance Targeting SelectivityR21EB029677 · NIBIB · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI CHEN, YUN · 2020 to 2020
$610kNCI NIH HHS R01 CA254193NCI NIH HHS R01 CA257647NIBIB NIH HHS R21 EB029677NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM142175
Abstract
Cells migrate
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Mechanical PhenomenaTractionCell MovementDimethylpolysiloxanesHydrogelsDimethylpolysiloxanesHydrogelscell migrationconfinementmicrofluidicssoft substratetraction force microscopy
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