Prolonged Mechanical Stretch Initiates Intracellular Calcium Oscillations in Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells

• Tae-Jin Kim ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tae-Jin Kim, Jie Sun

  Affiliations Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

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• Jie Sun ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tae-Jin Kim, Jie Sun

  Affiliation Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

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• Shaoying Lu,

  Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering and Institute of Engineering in Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Ying-Xin Qi,

  Affiliation Institute of Mechanobiology and Medical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

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• Yingxiao Wang

  * E-mail: yiw015@eng.ucsd.edu

  Affiliations Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering and Institute of Engineering in Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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