NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE ROLE OF CELL MECHANOTROPISM IN TISSUE ORGANIZATION

S. Palumbo^1,2, A. Cutolo^1,2, A. R. Carotenuto^1,2, M. Fraldi^1,2

¹Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture, University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy; ²Laboratory of Integrated Mechanics and Imaging for Testing and Simulations (LIMITS), University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy

REGULATORY NETWORK ANALYSIS OF NUCLEUS PULPOSUS CELLS UNDER PHYSIOLOGICAL AND HYPER-PHYSIOLOGICAL MECHANICAL STRESS

Z. Workineh, J. Noailly

University of Pompeu Fabra, Spain

IN SITU OBSERVATION OF TENSIONAL HOMEOSTASIS OF TENDON FASCICLE AT BOTH CELL AND TISSUE LEVELS

Y. Furunishi, J. Wang, J. Kim, T. Matsumoto, E. Maeda

Nagoya University, Japan

FIBRE ORIENTATION EXPLAINS MECHANICAL ADAPTATION OF UNLOADED RAT ACHILLES TENDON - A COMPUTATIONAL STUDY

R. Janssen, A. Gustafsson, M. Pierantoni, V. Jönsson, L. Grassi, H. Isaksson

Lund University, Sweden

SUBSTRATE DEFORMATION REGULATES ASTROCYTE MECHANOADAPTATION THROUGH ACTIN NETWORK AND PIEZO1

C. Gómez Cruz¹, M. Fernandez-de la Torre¹, D. Lachowski², A. E del Río Hernández², G. Perea³, A. Muñoz-Barrutia⁴, D. Garcia-Gonzalez¹

¹Department of Continuum Mechanics and Structural Analysis Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain; ²Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Sciences, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain; ³Department of Functional and Systems Neurobiology Instituto Cajal, Spain; ⁴Department of Bioengineering, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

MODELLING REGULATION OF TISSUE PRODUCING CELL ACTIVATION IN IN-SITU TISSUE ENGINEERED HEART VALVES

W. R. Stolk^1,2, E. Middendorp^1,2, F. P. Baaijens^1,2, S. Loerakker^1,2

¹Eindhoven university of Technology, Netherlands, The; ²Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

MULTISCALE ADAPTIVE MECHANICS OF EPITHELIAL CELLS IN A MONOLAYER: THE CONTRIBUTION OF INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS

M. Pensalfini^1,2, T. Golde³, X. Trepat^3,4,5,6, M. Arroyo^2,3,7

¹Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom; ²Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech, Spain; ³Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Spain; ⁴Universitat de Barcelona, Spain; ⁵Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Spain; ⁶Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Bioingenieria, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Spain; ⁷Centre Internacional de Mètodes Numèrics en Enginyeria (CIMNE), Spain

TOMOGRAPHIC SHEARMETRY OF DYNAMIC FLOWS AT CELL SURFACES USING NANOPROBES

A. Giannetti¹, M. Bonetti², J. Frederick¹, A. Castagnino¹, J. W. Kim², T. Gacoin², A. I. Barakat¹

¹LadHyX Ecole Polytechnique, France; ²PMC, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France.