Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine
Volume 2, Issue 1 , Pages 31-36 , March 2006

Recovery of elasticity of aged human epithelial cells in vitro

  • Igor Sokolov, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physics, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York, USA
    • Department of Chemistry, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Physics, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 13699-5820 USA.
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  • Swaminathan Iyer, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physics, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York, USA
    • ,
  • Craig D. Woodworth, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biology, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York, USA

Received 11 July 2005 ,Accepted 23 December 2005.

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 No financial conflict of interest was reported by the authors of this paper.

PII: S1549-9634(06)00007-4

doi: 10.1016/j.nano.2005.12.002

Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine
Volume 2, Issue 1 , Pages 31-36 , March 2006

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