Cellular mechanotransduction : diverse perspectives from molecules to tissues

The Resource Cellular mechanotransduction : diverse perspectives from molecules to tissues

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Cellular mechanotransduction : diverse perspectives from molecules to tissues

Title remainder

diverse perspectives from molecules to tissues

Statement of responsibility

edited by Mohammad R.K. Mofrad, Roger D. Kamm

Language

eng

Summary

""Mechanotransduction" is the term for the ability, first described by 19th-century anatomist Julius Wolff, of living tissues to sense mechanical stress and respond by tissue remodeling. More recently, the scope of mechanotransduction has been expanded to include the sensation of stress, its translation into a biochemical signal, and the sequence of biological responses it produces. This book looks at mechanotransduction in a more restricted sense, focusing on the process of stress sensing and transducing a mechanical force into a cascade of biochemical signals. This stress has become increasingly recognized as one of the primary and essential factors controlling biological functions, ultimately affecting the function of the cells, tissues, and organs. A primary goal of this broad book is also to help define the new field of mechanomics, which attempts to describe the complete mechanical state of a biological system."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

571.6

Illustrations

illustrations
plates

Index

index present

LC call number

QH645.5

LC item number

.M64 2010

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

2010 A-178
QU 375

NLM item number

M695c 2010

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