Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction, with the biological basis for cell mechanics
- 2 Experimental measurements of intracellular mechanics
- 3 The cytoskeleton as a soft glassy material
- 4 Continuum elastic or viscoelastic models for the cell
- 5 Multiphasic models of cell mechanics
- 6 Models of cytoskeletal mechanics based on tensegrity
- 7 Cells, gels, and mechanics
- 8 Polymer-based models of cytoskeletal networks
- 9 Cell dynamics and the actin cytoskeleton
- 10 Active cellular protrusion: continuum theories and models
- 11 Summary
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction, with the biological basis for cell mechanics
- 2 Experimental measurements of intracellular mechanics
- 3 The cytoskeleton as a soft glassy material
- 4 Continuum elastic or viscoelastic models for the cell
- 5 Multiphasic models of cell mechanics
- 6 Models of cytoskeletal mechanics based on tensegrity
- 7 Cells, gels, and mechanics
- 8 Polymer-based models of cytoskeletal networks
- 9 Cell dynamics and the actin cytoskeleton
- 10 Active cellular protrusion: continuum theories and models
- 11 Summary
- Index
Summary
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- Cytoskeletal MechanicsModels and Measurements in Cell Mechanics, pp. 231 - 244Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006