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Albert K. Harris
Researcher at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Publications - 30
Citations - 4218
Albert K. Harris is an academic researcher from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The author has contributed to research in topics: Actin & Cytoskeleton. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 30 publications receiving 4051 citations.
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Silicone rubber substrata: a new wrinkle in the study of cell locomotion
TL;DR: When tissue cells are cultured on very thin sheets of cross-linked silicone fluid, the traction forces the cells exert are made visible as elastic distortion and wrinkling of this substratum.
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Fibroblast traction as a mechanism for collagen morphogenesis
TL;DR: It is proposed that this morphogenetic rearrangement of extracellular matrices is the primary function of fibroblast traction and explains its excessive strength.
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Connective tissue morphogenesis by fibroblast traction: I. Tissue culture observations
David Stopak,Albert K. Harris +1 more
TL;DR: It is found that the force fibroblasts use to propel themselves (traction) is sufficiently strong to distort collagen gels and to form patterns of tension, compression, and alignment similar to the wrinkling patterns previously observed on silicone rubber.
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Anomalous preferences of cultured macrophages for hydrophobic and roughened substrata.
Abby Rich,Albert K. Harris +1 more
TL;DR: Peritoneal macrophages were plated out on a series of artificial haptotactic substrata consisting of grid patterns of vacuum-evaporated palladium metal alternating with hydrophobic untreated polystyrene and withHydrophilic sulphonatedpolystyrene, showing opposite substratum preferences which may reflect physical as well as functional differences in their surfaces.
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Is Cell sorting caused by differences in the work of intercellular adhesion? A critique of the Steinberg hypothesis.
TL;DR: A differential surface contraction hypothesis is proposed, according to which cell sorting and related phenomena are the results of cell surface contractions induced to occur over those portions of the cell surface which are exposed to the surrounding culture medium.