Ladoux's team observed that these active interfaces are hotspots for cell elimination and are marked by intensified mechanical force fluctuations. The study confirms that these amplified fluctuations ...

The cells in human bodies are subject to both chemical and mechanical forces. But until recently, scientists have not ...

Typically students in mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering (biomechanics specialization) take this course in their junior or senior years. ME 362 provides a fundamental understanding of ...

They ensure cell cohesion and regulate exchanges across ... A stiffer cortical membrane may be required to withstand the constant mechanical stimuli to which the hair cells lining the inner ...

Biomedical researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have decoded how mechanical forces drive cell behavior in fibrosis.

Fibrosis is an affliction wherein cells produce excess fibrous tissue. Fibroblast cells do this to close wounds, but the process can cascade in unwanted places. Examples include cardiac fibrosis; ...

Stopping cell microtubule protrusions, pictured here, could potentially inhibit unwanted fibrosis, wherein cells produce ...

Background Mechanical stress on the heart is commonly considered the sole stimulus explaining the synthesis and release of circulating natriuretic peptides and their derivatives. While one of the most ...