Anisotropic microsrheology of self-assembling collagen networks
<p> Collagen is the main component of human connective tissue and extracellular matrix. Here we report multiple novel methods for utilizing optical tweezers to measure mechanical properties of different hierarchical levels of collagenous materials. First, we introduce a method for optical trap...
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Illinois Institute of Technology
2015
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| Online Access: | http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3715685 |