A Quantitative Model of Cellular Elasticity Based on Tensegrity

Flexural rigidity of microtubules and actin filaments measured from thermal fluctuations in shape.

1993 • 1,765 citations

Cellular tensegrity: defining new rules of biological design that govern the cytoskeleton

1993 • 1,124 citations

Elasticity of Semiflexible Biopolymer Networks

1995 • 1,019 citations

Viscoelastic properties of vimentin compared with other filamentous biopolymer networks.

1991 • 694 citations

Control of cytoskeletal mechanics by extracellular matrix, cell shape, and mechanical tension

1994 • 528 citations

Direct measurement of stiffness of single actin filaments with and without tropomyosin by in vitro nanomanipulation.

1994 • 489 citations

Molecular Maps of Red Cell Deformation: Hidden Elasticity and in Situ Connectivity

1994 • 347 citations

Dependence of locally measured cellular deformability on position on the cell, temperature, and cytochalasin B.

1982 • 281 citations

Torsional rigidity of single actin filaments and actin–actin bond breaking force under torsion measured directly by in vitro micromanipulation

1996 • 268 citations

Theoretical estimates of mechanical properties of the endothelial cell cytoskeleton

1996 • 265 citations

Probing transmembrane mechanical coupling and cytomechanics using magnetic twisting cytometry

1995 • 236 citations

Is cytoskeletal tension a major determinant of cell deformability in adherent endothelial cells?

1998 • 234 citations

A Microstructural Approach to Cytoskeletal Mechanics based on Tensegrity

1996 • 218 citations

Viscoelastic properties of cultured porcine aortic endothelial cells exposed to shear stress

1996 • 164 citations

Cytoskeletal Plasticity in Cells Expressing Neuronal Microtubule-Associated Proteins

1996 • 162 citations

Pharmacological activation changes stiffness of cultured human airway smooth muscle cells

1996 • 130 citations

Mechanical Remodeling of the Endothelial Surface and Actin Cytoskeleton Induced by Fluid Flow

1997 • 89 citations

A Tensegrity Structure With Buckling Compression Elements: Application to Cell Mechanics

1997 • 86 citations

Cytoskeletal mechanics in confluent epithelial cells probed through integrins and E-cadherins

1997 • 81 citations

Intermediate Filaments May Prevent Buckling of Compressively Loaded Microtubules

1990 • 80 citations

Stiffening Response of a Cellular Tensegrity Model

1999 • 76 citations

Cell poking: quantitative analysis of indentation of thick viscoelastic layers

1989 • 53 citations