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List of works by Beth L. Pruitt

An Easy-to-Fabricate Cell Stretcher Reveals Density-Dependent Mechanical Regulation of Collective Cell Movements in Epithelia

scientific article published on 25 August 2020

Caenorhabditis elegans body mechanics are regulated by body wall muscle tone

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Cell adhesion. Mechanical strain induces E-cadherin-dependent Yap1 and β-catenin activation to drive cell cycle entry

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Changes in E-cadherin rigidity sensing regulate cell adhesion

scientific article published on 3 July 2017

Contractility of single cardiomyocytes differentiated from pluripotent stem cells depends on physiological shape and substrate stiffness

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Controlled phage therapy by photothermal ablation of specific bacterial species using gold nanorods targeted by chimeric phages

scientific article published on 13 January 2020

DEG/ENaC but not TRP channels are the major mechanoelectrical transduction channels in a C. elegans nociceptor

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Design optimization of piezoresistive cantilevers for force sensing in air and water.

scientific article published on 23 September 2009

Disease Model of GATA4 Mutation Reveals Transcription Factor Cooperativity in Human Cardiogenesis.

scientific article published in December 2016

Distilling complexity to advance cardiac tissue engineering

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E-cadherin and LGN align epithelial cell divisions with tissue tension independently of cell shape

scientific article published on 3 July 2017

E-cadherin is under constitutive actomyosin-generated tension that is increased at cell-cell contacts upon externally applied stretch

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Effects of substrate mechanics on contractility of cardiomyocytes generated from human pluripotent stem cells.

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Faster than the speed of hearing: nanomechanical force probes enable the electromechanical observation of cochlear hair cells.

scientific article published on 29 November 2012

For whom the cells pull: Hydrogel and micropost devices for measuring traction forces

scientific article published on 8 August 2015

Forces applied during classical touch assays for Caenorhabditis elegans

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Formation of composite polyacrylamide and silicone substrates for independent control of stiffness and strain

scientific article published in February 2013

High bandwidth piezoresistive force probes with integrated thermal actuation

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Hydrogel crosslinking density regulates temporal contractility of human embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes in 3D cultures

scientific article (publication date: 21 October 2012)

Increasing β-catenin/Wnt3A activity levels drive mechanical strain-induced cell cycle progression through mitosis.

scientific article published on 26 October 2016

Integrated strain array for cellular mechanobiology studies ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 2011

MEMS Electrostatic Actuation in Conducting Biological Media.

scientific article published on April 2009

MEMS-based force-clamp analysis of the role of body stiffness in C. elegans touch sensation

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MEMS-based shear characterization of soft hydrated samples

scientific article published on August 2013

Mechano-transduction: from molecules to tissues

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Mechanobiology Assays with Applications in Cardiomyocyte Biology and Cardiotoxicity

scientific article published on 09 April 2020

Mechanotransduction: use the force(s).

scientific article published on 4 July 2015

Microsystems for biomechanical measurements.

scientific article published on May 2008

Microsystems for biomimetic stimulation of cardiac cells ⬇️

scientific article published on July 11, 2012

Multi-Imaging Method to Assay the Contractile Mechanical Output of Micropatterned Human iPSC-Derived Cardiac Myocytes

scientific article published on 11 April 2017

Nanomechanical Actuation of a Silicon Cantilever Using an Azo Dye, Self-Assembled Monolayer ⬇️

scientific article published on May 28, 2013

Piezoresistive Cantilever Performance-Part I: Analytical Model for Sensitivity

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Piezoresistive cantilever force-clamp system.

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Planar patterned stretchable electrode arrays based on flexible printed circuits

scientific article published on October 2013

Pneumatic stimulation of C. elegans mechanoreceptor neurons in a microfluidic trap.

scientific article published on 16 February 2017

Rise Time Reduction of Thermal Actuators Operated in Air and Water through Optimized Pre-Shaped Open-Loop Driving.

scientific article published on 24 February 2017

Role of Surface Roughness in Hysteresis during Adhesive Elastic Contact.

scientific article published on December 2010

SU-8 force sensing pillar arrays for biological measurements

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Sacrificial layer technique for axial force post assay of immature cardiomyocytes

scientific article published on February 2013

Self-heating in piezoresistive cantilevers

scientific article published on 31 May 2011

Shear-induced damped oscillations in an epithelium depend on actomyosin contraction and E-cadherin cell adhesion

scientific article published on 14 November 2018

Single Molecule Force Measurements in Living Cells Reveal a Minimally Tensioned Integrin State

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Somatosensory neurons integrate the geometry of skin deformation and mechanotransduction channels to shape touch sensing

scientific article published on 13 August 2019

Spatial distribution of cell-cell and cell-ECM adhesions regulates force balance while main-taining E-cadherin molecular tension in cell pairs

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Spatial patterning of endothelium modulates cell morphology, adhesiveness and transcriptional signature.

scientific article published on 26 January 2013

Spatially Resolved Study of Backscattering in the Quantum Spin Hall State

Spontaneous cardiomyocyte differentiation of mouse embryoid bodies regulated by hydrogel crosslink density.

scientific article published on October 2013

Stable, covalent attachment of laminin to microposts improves the contractility of mouse neonatal cardiomyocytes.

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The Yin-Yang of Rigidity Sensing: How Forces and Mechanical Properties Regulate the Cellular Response to Materials

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The tactile receptive fields of freely moving Caenorhabditis elegans nematodes

scientific article published on 20 July 2018

Tissue mechanics and somatosensory neural responses govern touch sensation in C. elegans

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Tissue mechanics govern the rapidly adapting and symmetrical response to touch.

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Tuning the Range of Polyacrylamide Gel Stiffness for Mechanobiology Applications

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