Yu-li Wang

Overview

Best Publications

• Tissue Cells Feel and Respond to the Stiffness of Their Substrate

  Dennis E. Discher;Paul Janmey;Yu Li Wang

  7209
  Citations

• Cell Movement Is Guided by the Rigidity of the Substrate

  Chun Min Lo;Hong Bei Wang;Micah Dembo;Yu Li Wang

  3929
  Citations

• Cell locomotion and focal adhesions are regulated by substrate flexibility

  Robert J. Pelham;Yu-li Wang

  3678
  Citations

• Stresses at the Cell-to-Substrate Interface during Locomotion of Fibroblasts

  Micah Dembo;Yu-Li Wang

  1558
  Citations

• Nascent Focal Adhesions Are Responsible for the Generation of Strong Propulsive Forces in Migrating Fibroblasts

  Karen A. Beningo;Micah Dembo;Irina N. Kaverina;J. Victor Small

  923
  Citations

• Exchange of actin subunits at the leading edge of living fibroblasts: possible role of treadmilling.

  Yu-Li Wang

  825
  Citations

• Substrate flexibility regulates growth and apoptosis of normal but not transformed cells

  Hong-Bei Wang;Micah Dembo;Yu-Li Wang

  802
  Citations

• Traction Force Microscopy of Migrating Normal and H-ras Transformed 3T3 Fibroblasts

  Steven Munevar;Yu-li Wang;Micah Dembo

  695
  Citations

• Focal adhesion kinase is involved in mechanosensing during fibroblast migration

  Hong-Bei Wang;Micah Dembo;Steven K. Hanks;Yu-li Wang

  604
  Citations

• A role for the lissencephaly gene LIS1 in mitosis and cytoplasmic dynein function

  Nicole E. Faulkner;Denis L. Dujardin;Chin-Yin Tai;Kevin T. Vaughan

  533
  Citations

• Substrate Rigidity Regulates the Formation and Maintenance of Tissues

  Wei-Hui Guo;Margo Tilley Frey;Margo Tilley Frey;Nancy A. Burnham;Yu-Li Wang

  527
  Citations

• Preparation of a flexible, porous polyacrylamide substrate for mechanical studies of cultured cells.

  Yu-Li Wang;Robert J. Pelham

  481
  Citations

• Fc-receptor-mediated phagocytosis is regulated by mechanical properties of the target

  Karen A. Beningo;Yu Li Wang

  451
  Citations

• Role of Polo Kinase and Mid1p in Determining the Site of Cell Division in Fission Yeast

  Jürg Bähler;Alexander B. Steever;Sally Wheatley;Yu-li Wang

  395
  Citations

• The regulation of traction force in relation to cell shape and focal adhesions.

  Andrew D. Rape;Wei-hui Guo;Yu-li Wang

  357
  Citations

• Flexible substrata for the detection of cellular traction forces

  Karen A. Beningo;Yu Li Wang

  343
  Citations

• High Resolution Detection of Mechanical Forces Exerted by Locomoting Fibroblasts on the Substrate

  Robert J. Pelham;Yu-li Wang

  339
  Citations

• Responses of fibroblasts to anchorage of dorsal extracellular matrix receptors

  Karen A. Beningo;Micah Dembo;Yu Li Wang

  330
  Citations

• Mammalian Spindle Orientation and Position Respond to Changes in Cell Shape in a Dynein-dependent Fashion

  Christopher B. O'Connell;Yu-li Wang

  327
  Citations

• Midzone microtubule bundles are continuously required for cytokinesis in cultured epithelial cells.

  Sally P. Wheatley;Yu-li Wang

  317
  Citations