1. Cell skeleton or cytoskeleton
Bernard MAURIN, Patrick CAÑADAS and René MOTRO are research professors at the Mechanics and Civil Engineering Laboratory (CNRS 5508 joint research unit) at Montpellier 2 University.
One of the major challenges of cellular biomechanics is to contribute to the understanding of physiological and pathological processes at tissue or organ level: bone remodeling, tissue repair, immune response or metastasis development. To achieve this, it is necessary to clarify the link between the mechanical behavior of adherent cells in interaction with their environment (extracellular matrix and/or neighboring cells) and their biological functions, such as differentiation, gene expression, apoptosis or cell migration
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Cell skeleton or cytoskeleton
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LMGC90 software is a development platform dedicated to modeling interaction problems, such as granular materials and block buildings. Bodies can be rigid or deformable (discrete elements, finite elements with multi-physics coupling) and interactions can be of any nature (contact, friction, cohesion, etc.). It consists of a library of components (modules) that can be used via a macro language, relying as far as possible...
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