Cyclic Stress at mHz Frequencies Aligns Fibroblasts in Direction of Zero Strain

• Uta Faust ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Uta Faust, Nico Hampe

  Affiliation Institute of Complex Systems, ICS-7, Biomechanics, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

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• Nico Hampe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Uta Faust, Nico Hampe

  Affiliation Institute of Complex Systems, ICS-7, Biomechanics, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

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• Wolfgang Rubner,

  Affiliation Institute of Complex Systems, ICS-7, Biomechanics, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

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• Norbert Kirchgeßner,

  Current address: Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

  Affiliation Institute of Complex Systems, ICS-7, Biomechanics, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

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• Sam Safran,

  Affiliation Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

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• Bernd Hoffmann ,

  * E-mail: b.hoffmann@fz-juelich.de

  Affiliation Institute of Complex Systems, ICS-7, Biomechanics, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

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• Rudolf Merkel

  Affiliation Institute of Complex Systems, ICS-7, Biomechanics, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany

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