Cells (VIDEO)

Johns Hopkins Medicine

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To create shear stress, the flow rate of the fluid moving across these cells was increased for 5 seconds. The cells sense the increased force and biochemical sensors move rapidly to the membrane in response.

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Yulia Artemenko, Johns Hopkins Medicine

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