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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
77
Citations
28193
World Ranking
4698
National Ranking
2276

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Best Publications

  • Mechanotransduction across the cell surface and through the cytoskeleton

    N. Wang;J.P. Butler;D.E. Ingber

  • Scaling the microrheology of living cells.

    Ben Fabry;Geoffrey N. Maksym;James P. Butler;Michael Glogauer

  • Physical forces during collective cell migration

    Xavier Trepat;Xavier Trepat;Michael R. Wasserman;Thomas E. Angelini;Emil Millet

  • Traction fields, moments, and strain energy that cells exert on their surroundings

    James P. Butler;Iva Marija Tolić-Nørrelykke;Ben Fabry;Jeffrey J. Fredberg

  • Collective cell guidance by cooperative intercellular forces.

    Dhananjay T. Tambe;C. Corey Hardin;Thomas E. Angelini;Kavitha Rajendran

  • Cell prestress. I. Stiffness and prestress are closely associated in adherent contractile cells

    Ning Wang;Iva Marija Tolić-Nørrelykke;Jianxin Chen;Srboljub M. Mijailovich

  • Universal physical responses to stretch in the living cell

    Xavier Trepat;Linhong Deng;Linhong Deng;Steven S. An;Steven S. An;Daniel Navajas

  • Unjamming and cell shape in the asthmatic airway epithelium

    Jin Ah Park;Jae Hun Kim;Dapeng Bi;Jennifer A. Mitchel

  • Cytoskeletal remodelling and slow dynamics in the living cell.

    Predrag Bursac;Guillaume Lenormand;Ben Fabry;Madavi Oliver

  • Mechanical waves during tissue expansion

    Xavier Serra-Picamal;Vito Conte;Romaric Vincent;Ester Anon

  • Airway smooth muscle, tidal stretches, and dynamically determined contractile states.

    Jeffrey J. Fredberg;David Inouye;Brett Miller;Madhavi Nathan

  • Time scale and other invariants of integrative mechanical behavior in living cells.

    Ben Fabry;Geoffrey N. Maksym;James P. Butler;Michael Glogauer

  • Fast and slow dynamics of the cytoskeleton

    Linhong Deng;Linhong Deng;Xavier Trepat;James P. Butler;Emil Millet

  • 3D Traction forces in cancer cell invasion.

    Thorsten M. Koch;Stefan Münster;Navid Bonakdar;James Preston Butler;James Preston Butler

  • Perturbed equilibrium of myosin binding in airway smooth muscle and its implications in bronchospasm.

    Jeffrey J. Fredberg;David S. Inouye;Srboljub M. Mijailovich;James P. Butler

  • Airway geometry by analysis of acoustic pulse response measurements

    A. C. Jackson;J. P. Butler;E. J. Millet;F. G. Hoppin

  • Intracellular stress tomography reveals stress focusing and structural anisotropy in cytoskeleton of living cells

    Shaohua Hu;Jianxin Chen;Ben Fabry;Yasushi Numaguchi

  • Is cytoskeletal tension a major determinant of cell deformability in adherent endothelial cells

    Jacob Pourati;Andrew Maniotis;David Spiegel;Jonathan L. Schaffer

  • Reinforcement versus Fluidization in Cytoskeletal Mechanoresponsiveness

    Ramaswamy Krishnan;Chan Young Park;Yu-Chun Lin;Jere Mead

  • A microstructural approach to cytoskeletal mechanics based on tensegrity

    Dimitrije Stamenović;Jeffrey J. Fredberg;Ning Wang;James P. Butler

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey J. Fredberg
Jeffrey J. Fredberg Harvard University
Atul Malhotra
Atul Malhotra University of California, San Diego
Ben Fabry
Ben Fabry University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
David P. White
David P. White Brigham and Women's Hospital
Ning Wang
Ning Wang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David A. Weitz
David A. Weitz Harvard University
William F. Crowley
William F. Crowley Harvard University
Ronald L. Walsworth
Ronald L. Walsworth University of Maryland, Baltimore
Danny J. Eckert
Danny J. Eckert Flinders University

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