Cell Visco-Elasticity Measured with AFM and Optical Trapping at Sub-Micrometer Deformations

Schanila Nawaz; Paula Sánchez; Kai Bodensiek; Sai Li; Mikael Simons; Iwan A. T. Schaap

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0045297

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Cell Visco-Elasticity Measured with AFM and Optical Trapping at Sub-Micrometer Deformations

Schanila Nawaz ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Schanila Nawaz, Paula Sánchez

Affiliations III. Physikalisches Institut, Faculty of Physics, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, DFG Research Center for Molecular Physiology of the Brain (CMPB)/Excellence Cluster 171, Göttingen, Germany, Max-Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany
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Paula Sánchez ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Schanila Nawaz, Paula Sánchez

Affiliations III. Physikalisches Institut, Faculty of Physics, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, DFG Research Center for Molecular Physiology of the Brain (CMPB)/Excellence Cluster 171, Göttingen, Germany
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Kai Bodensiek,

Affiliations III. Physikalisches Institut, Faculty of Physics, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, DFG Research Center for Molecular Physiology of the Brain (CMPB)/Excellence Cluster 171, Göttingen, Germany
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Sai Li,

Affiliations III. Physikalisches Institut, Faculty of Physics, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, DFG Research Center for Molecular Physiology of the Brain (CMPB)/Excellence Cluster 171, Göttingen, Germany
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Mikael Simons,

Affiliations Max-Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany, Department of Neurology, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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Iwan A. T. Schaap

* E-mail: ischaap@physik3.gwdg.de

Affiliations III. Physikalisches Institut, Faculty of Physics, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, DFG Research Center for Molecular Physiology of the Brain (CMPB)/Excellence Cluster 171, Göttingen, Germany
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Cell Visco-Elasticity Measured with AFM and Optical Trapping at Sub-Micrometer Deformations

Schanila Nawaz,
Paula Sánchez,
Kai Bodensiek,
Sai Li,
Mikael Simons,
Iwan A. T. Schaap

Published: September 19, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0045297

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