Tug of War at the Cell-Matrix Interface

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¹ Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Physical Sciences in Oncology Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Institute for Engineering in Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Electronic address: pprovenz@umn.edu.

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Paolo P Provenzano. Biophys J. 2017.

. 2017 May 9;112(9):1739-1741.

doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2017.03.032.

¹ Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Physical Sciences in Oncology Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Stem Cell Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Institute for Engineering in Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Electronic address: pprovenz@umn.edu.

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Mechanotransduction Dynamics at the Cell-Matrix Interface.
Weinberg SH, Mair DB, Lemmon CA. Weinberg SH, et al. Biophys J. 2017 May 9;112(9):1962-1974. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2017.02.027. Biophys J. 2017. PMID: 28494966 Free PMC article.

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