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Nanomechanical characterization of living mammary tissues by atomic force microscopy

Plodinec, Marija and Lim, Roderick Y. H.. (2015) Nanomechanical characterization of living mammary tissues by atomic force microscopy. Methods in Molecular Biology, 1293. pp. 231-246.

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Abstract

The mechanical properties of living cells and tissues are important for a variety of functional processes in vivo, including cell adhesion, migration, proliferation and differentiation. Changes in mechano-cellular phenotype, for instance, are associated with cancer progression. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is an enabling technique that topographically maps and quantifies the mechanical properties of complex biological matter in physiological aqueous environments at the nanometer length scale. Recently we applied AFM to spatially resolve the distribution of nanomechanical stiffness across human breast cancer biopsies in comparison to healthy tissue and benign tumors. This led to the finding that AFM provides quantitative mechano-markers that may have translational significance for the clinical diagnosis of cancer. Here, we provide a comprehensive description of sample preparation methodology, instrumentation, data acquisition and analysis that allows for the quantitative nanomechanical profiling of unadulterated tissue at submicron spatial resolution and nano-Newton (nN) force sensitivity in physiological conditions.
Faculties and Departments:05 Faculty of Science > Departement Biozentrum > Structural Biology & Biophysics > Nanobiology Argovia (Lim)
UniBasel Contributors:Lim, Roderick Y.H. and Plodinec, Marija
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:Humana Press
ISSN:1064-3745
e-ISSN:1940-6029
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
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Last Modified:18 Apr 2018 09:06
Deposited On:06 Nov 2015 10:21

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