New PDF release: Cellular Mechanotransduction: Diverse Perspectives from

By Mohammad R. K. Mofrad,Roger D. Kamm

ISBN-10: 0521895235

ISBN-13: 9780521895231

ISBN-10: 1107682460

ISBN-13: 9781107682467

'Mechanotransduction' is the time period for the facility, first defined via 19th-century anatomist Julius Wolff, of residing tissues to experience mechanical rigidity and reply through tissue home improvement. extra lately, the scope of mechanotransduction has been multiplied to incorporate the feeling of rigidity, its translation right into a biochemical sign, and the series of organic responses it produces. This ebook seems to be at mechanotransduction in a extra limited experience, concentrating on the method of pressure sensing and transducing a mechanical strength right into a cascade of biochemical signs. This tension has develop into more and more well-known as one of many basic and crucial components controlling organic features, eventually affecting the functionality of the cells, tissues, and organs. a chief target of this huge ebook is usually to assist outline the recent box of mechanomics, which makes an attempt to explain the whole mechanical kingdom of a organic system.

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