Quantifying cell-adhesion strength with micropipette manipulation: principle and application
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Quantifying cell-adhesion strength with micropipette manipulation: principle and application.
Quantifying cell-adhesion strength is of great importance in biology and medicine. Cell-adhesion strength can be characterized by separating two adherent cells and determining the force required to do so, or by measuring the lifetime of a receptor-ligand bond that mediates cell adhesion. To this end, several micropipette-based experimental techniques that operate at both cellular and molecular ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Bioscience
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1093-9946,1093-4715
DOI: 10.2741/1386