Mechanical Stability Determines Stress Fiber and Focal Adhesion Orientation

Force and focal adhesion assembly: a close relationship studied using elastic micropatterned substrates

Nathalie Q. Balaban, Ulrich S. Schwarz, Daniel Riveline et al. · Nature Cell Biology · 2001 · 2.1K citations

Materials Science, Close Relationship, Engineering +11

Local Measurements of Viscoelastic Parameters of Adherent Cell Surfaces by Magnetic Bead Microrheometry

Andreas R. Bausch, Florian Ziemann, Alexei Boulbitch et al. · Biophysical Journal · 1998 · 713 citations · Full text

Rheological Measurement, Engineering, Local Measurements +13

Viscoelastic Retraction of Single Living Stress Fibers and Its Impact on Cell Shape, Cytoskeletal Organization, and Extracellular Matrix Mechanics

Sanjay Kumar, Iva Maxwell, Alexander Heisterkamp et al. · Biophysical Journal · 2006 · 673 citations · Full text

Mechanobiology, Engineering, Biomechanics +12

Cooperative effects of Rho and mechanical stretch on stress fiber organization

Roland Kaunas, Phu Hung Nguyen, Shunichi Usami et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2005 · 414 citations · Full text

Engineering, Stress Fiber Formation, Cell Adhesion +32

Mechanical force mobilizes zyxin from focal adhesions to actin filaments and regulates cytoskeletal reinforcement

Masaaki Yoshigi, Laura Hoffman, Christopher C. Jensen et al. · The Journal of Cell Biology · 2005 · 399 citations · Full text

Engineering, Cell Adhesion, Cytoskeleton +19