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models and measurements

edited by Mohammad R.K. Mofrad, Roger D. Kamm.

Cambridge University Press

2006

x, 244 p. ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction, with the biological basis for cell mechanics / Roger D. Kamm and Mohammad R.K. Mofrad -- Experimental measurements of intracellular mechanics / Paul Janmey and Christoph Schmidt -- The cytoskeleton as a soft glassy material / Jeffrey Fredberg and Ben Fabry -- Continuum elastic or viscoelastic models for the cell / Mohammed [sic] R.K. Mofrad, Helene Karcher, and Roger D. Kamm -- Multiphasic models of cell mechanics / Farshid Guilak ... [et al.] -- Models of cytoskeletal mechanics based on tensegrity / Dimitrije Stamenovic -- Cells, gels and mechanics / Gerald H. Pollack -- Polymer-based models of cytoskeletal networks / F.C. MacKintosh -- Cell dynamics and the actin cytoskeleton / James L. McGrath and C. Forbes Dewey, Jr. -- Active cellular motion : continuum theories and models / Marc Herant and Micah Dembo.

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