2017
Adding dimension to cellular mechanotransduction: Advances in biomedical engineering of multiaxial cell-stretch systems and their application to cardiovascular biomechanics and mechano-signaling
Friedrich O, Schneidereit D, Nikolaev Y, Nikolova-Krstevski V, Schürmann S, Wirth-Hücking A, Merten A, Fatkin D, Martinac B. Adding dimension to cellular mechanotransduction: Advances in biomedical engineering of multiaxial cell-stretch systems and their application to cardiovascular biomechanics and mechano-signaling. Progress In Biophysics And Molecular Biology 2017, 130: 170-191. PMID: 28647645, DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2017.06.011.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAnimalsBiomechanical PhenomenaBiomedical EngineeringBiosensing TechniquesCardiovascular SystemHumansMechanical PhenomenaMechanotransduction, CellularConceptsFocal adhesion complexesCell-substrate junctionLive-cell imagingMechanosensitive ion channelsDirect mechanistic studiesAdhesion complexesCellular mechanotransductionMembrane junctionsIntracellular signalingMechanotransduction researchCellular stretchCellular modelIon channelsCellular levelCell membraneMechanotransductionIndividual cardiomyocytesBiomedical engineeringMechanical wall stressMembraneMechanistic studiesCellsStretch deviceCardiomyocytesElastomeric membrane
2015
Single mechanically-gated cation channel currents can trigger action potentials in neocortical and hippocampal pyramidal neurons
Nikolaev Y, Dosen P, Laver D, van Helden D, Hamill O. Single mechanically-gated cation channel currents can trigger action potentials in neocortical and hippocampal pyramidal neurons. Brain Research 2015, 1608: 1-13. PMID: 25765154, DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2015.02.051.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHippocampal pyramidal neuronsPyramidal neuronsChannel currentsSpike activityAction potentialsRhythmic spike activityCell-attached patch recordingsTraumatic brain injuryCerebellar Purkinje neuronsMouse brain slicesCation channel currentsCentral neuronsBrain injuryLocus coeruleusBrain slicesSynaptic inputsVoltage-gated channelsPurkinje neuronsPatch recordingsInward currentsMammalian brainNeuron typesNeuronsMechanosensitive organCation channels