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Overview

Elliot L. Elson is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, alongside medicine. The primary subfields of study include cell biology, biomedical engineering, rehabilitation, molecular biology, and physiology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as cellular mechanics and interactions, 3D printing in biomedical research, wound healing and treatments, tendon structure and treatment, advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques, spaceflight effects on biology, and cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias.

Frequent publication venues where Elliot L. Elson's work appears are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Biophysical Journal
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • ACS Nano

Their recent papers include:

  • "The Balance between Actomyosin Contractility and Microtubule Polymerization Regulates Hierarchical Protrusions That Govern Efficient Fibroblast-Collagen Interactions," 2020, ACS Nano
  • "Tension anisotropy drives fibroblast phenotypic transition by self-reinforcing cell-extracellular matrix mechanical feedback," 2025, Nature Materials
  • "Tension anisotropy drives phenotypic transitions of cells via two-way cell-ECM feedback," 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Cell-matrix feedback controls stretch-induced cellular memory and fibroblast activation," 2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "A nuclear basis for mechanointelligence in cells," 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Elliot L. Elson has collaborated frequently with several researchers, notably:

  • Guy M. Genin
  • Farid Alisafaei
  • Delaram Shakiba
  • Mohammad Jafari
  • Kenneth M. Pryse

Best Publications

  • Mobility measurement by analysis of fluorescence photobleaching recovery kinetics.

    D. Axelrod;D.E. Koppel;J. Schlessinger;E. Elson

  • Thermodynamic Fluctuations in a Reacting System-Measurement by Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy

    Douglas Magde;Elliot Elson;W. W. Webb

  • Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. I. Conceptual basis and theory

    Elliot L. Elson;Douglas Magde

  • Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy. II. An Experimental Realization

    Douglas Magde;Elliot L. Elson;Watt W. Webb

  • Single particle tracking. Analysis of diffusion and flow in two-dimensional systems.

    H. Qian;Michael Sheetz;E. L. Elson

  • Three-dimensional reconstitution of embryonic cardiomyocytes in a collagen matrix: a new heart muscle model system.

    Thomas Eschenhagen;Christine Fink;Ute Remmers;Hasso Scholz

  • Mechanics of stimulated neutrophils: cell stiffening induces retention in capillaries

    GS Worthen;B Schwab;EL Elson;GP Downey

  • Dynamics of fluorescence marker concentration as a probe of mobility

    D.E. Koppel;D. Axelrod;J. Schlessinger;E.L. Elson

  • Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy : theory and applications

    Rudolf Rigler;Elliot Elson

  • Effects of cytochalasin D and latrunculin B on mechanical properties of cells

    T. Wakatsuki;B. Schwab;N.C. Thompson;E.L. Elson

  • Lateral motion of fluorescently labeled acetylcholine receptors in membranes of developing muscle fibers.

    Daniel Axelrod;Peter Ravdin;D. E. Koppel;J. Schlessinger

  • Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy: Past, Present, Future

    Elliot L. Elson

  • Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. III. Uniform translation and laminar flow

    Douglas Magde;Watt W. Webb;Elliot L. Elson

  • Short Communication: Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Stiffness As a Mechanism for Increased Aortic Stiffness With Aging

    Hongyu Qiu;Yi Zhu;Yi Zhu;Zhe Sun;Jerome P. Trzeciakowski

  • Mechanical function of dystrophin in muscle cells.

    Carmela Pasternak;Scott Wong;Elliot L. Elson

  • Lateral transport on cell membranes: mobility of concanavalin A receptors on myoblasts.

    J Schlessinger;D E Koppel;D Axelrod;K Jacobson

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

    Nils O. Petersen;William B. McConnaughey;Elliot L. Elson

  • Nanometre-level analysis demonstrates that lipid flow does not drive membrane glycoprotein movements

    Michael P. Sheetz;Stephen Turney;Hong Qian;Elliot L. Elson

  • Lateral transport of a lipid probe and labeled proteins on a cell membrane.

    J. Schlessinger;D. Axelrod;D. E. Koppel;W. W. Webb

  • Capping of surface receptors and concomitant cortical tension are generated by conventional myosin

    Carmela Pasternak;James A. Spudich;Elliot L. Elson

Frequent Co-Authors

Hong Qian
Hong Qian University of Washington
Carl Frieden
Carl Frieden Washington University in St. Louis
Michael P. Sheetz
Michael P. Sheetz The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Robert L. Baldwin
Robert L. Baldwin Stanford University
Gregory P. Downey
Gregory P. Downey National Jewish Health
Yoav I. Henis
Yoav I. Henis Tel Aviv University
Joseph Schlessinger
Joseph Schlessinger Yale University
Thomas Eschenhagen
Thomas Eschenhagen Universität Hamburg
John A. Cooper
John A. Cooper Washington University in St. Louis
Tian Yow Tsong
Tian Yow Tsong University of Minnesota

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