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Soft Matter, 2009, 5, 3262 - 3265, DOI: 10.1039/b901714c


Elasticity mapping of apical cell membranes

Tamir Fine, Ingo Mey, Christina Rommel, Joachim Wegener, Claudia Steinem and Andreas Janshoff


Apical cell membranes obtained from polar epithelial MDCK II cells were prepared on a highly ordered porous substrate, which allows local elastic mapping by force indentation curves.

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