Mechanosensing and Mechanochemical Transduction in Extracellular Matrix Biological, Chemical, Engineering, and Physiological Aspects /

• Main Author: Silver, Frederick H. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Biochemical engineering.; Life sciences.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Biomedical engineering.; Biomedical Engineering.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.; Biochemical Engineering.; Life Sciences, general.

Mechanosensing and Mechanochemical Transduction in Extracellular Matrix offers the reader recent information in addition to models of how mechanical information is transduced into genetic and biochemical changes at the cellular and tissue levels. Mechanosensing and Mechanochemical Transduction in Ex...

Table of Contents:

• to Mechanochemical Transduction in Tissues
• Macromolecular Structures in Tissues
• Microscopic and Macroscopic Structure of Tissues
• Determination of Physical Structure and Modeling
• Self-Assembly of Biological Macromolecules
• Mechanical Properties of Biological Macromolecules
• Viscoelastic Mechanical Properties of Tissues
• Models of Mechanical Properties of ECMs
• Mechanochemical Sensing and Transduction
• Mechanochemical Transduction and Its Role in Biology.