Mechanotransduction: Understanding the Cellular and Tissue Communication Mechanisms of Mechanical Forces
A special issue of Cells (ISSN 2073-4409).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 April 2025 | Viewed by 18
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The fields of cell and tissue mechanics have exploded in the last 25 years, and they have now become integral to our understanding of how normal and pathological cells and tissue form and function. Nonetheless, there are many things we still do not understand about how physical information is processed by the cell/tissue to significantly change their behavior. A significant finding was the Yap/Taz circuit, but as with biochemical ligands, physical forces come in many forms and are likely to utilize any number of communication pathways. The objective of this Special Issue is to gather information about the molecules of known or speculative mechanotransduction pathways. Our goal is to accumulate and put together puzzle pieces that may be useful to other researchers in the field.
Dr. Karen A. Beningo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- mechanotransduction
- cell/tissue mechanics
- physical communication
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