| Literature DB >> 21425841 |
Janosch A Deeg1, Ilia Louban, Daniel Aydin, Christine Selhuber-Unkel, Horst Kessler, Joachim P Spatz.
Abstract
α(v)β(3) integrin-mediated cell adhesion is crucially influenced by how far ligands are spaced apart. To evaluate the impact of local ligand density versus global ligand density of a given surface, we used synthetic micronanostructured cell environments with user-defined ligand spacing and patterns to investigate cellular adhesion. The development of stable focal adhesions, their number, and size as well as the cellular adhesion strength proved to be influenced by local more than global ligand density.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21425841 PMCID: PMC3806292 DOI: 10.1021/nl104079r
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nano Lett ISSN: 1530-6984 Impact factor: 11.189