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Chapter 19 Mechanical Response of Cytoskeletal Networks

Margaret L. Gardel, Karen E. Kasza, Clifford P. Brangwynne, Jiayu Liu, David A. Weitz

Methods in cell biology · 2008 · 219 citations · 75 references

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