Fluidization and resolidification of the human bladder smooth muscle cell in response to transient stretch.

Fluidization and resolidification of the human bladder smooth muscle cell in response to transient stretch.

Cells resident in certain hollow organs are subjected routinely to large transient stretches, including every adherent cell resident in lungs, heart, great vessels, gut, and bladder. We have shown recently that in response to a transient stretch the adherent eukaryotic cell promptly fluidizes and th...

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Main Authors: Cheng Chen, Ramaswamy Krishnan, Enhua Zhou, Aruna Ramachandran, Dhananjay Tambe, Kavitha Rajendran, Rosalyn M Adam, Linhong Deng, Jeffrey J Fredberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2917357?pdf=render

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