Matrix elasticity directs stem cell lineage specification.
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...…probe (Veeco; Santa Barbara, CA) with a constant, ksp 60 pN/nm. Force-indentation profiles were obtained immediately adjacent to a cell, and each indentation profile was fit up to the point at which probe indentation into the secreted matrix stopped with a Hertz cone model (Rotsch et al., 1999)....
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...Neuron-specific cytoskeletal markers such as nestin, an early commitment marker, and b3 tubulin, expressed in immature neurons, as well as the mature marker neurofilament light chain (NFL) (Lariviere and Julien, 2004) and the early/midadhesion protein NCAM (Rutishauser, 1984), are all upregulated....
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...…Sweeney,1 and Dennis E. Discher1,2,3,4,* 1Pennsylvania Muscle Institute 2School of Engineering and Applied Science 3Cell & Molecular Biology Graduate Group 4Physics Graduate Group University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA *Contact: discher@seas.upenn.edu DOI 10.1016/j.cell.2006.06.044...
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...…densities after 1 week in culture approach those of primary neurons on matrigel-coated gels (Flanagan et al., 2002), and the dynamics of outward extension with branching is clearly opposite to DMSO-induced retraction of the cell body that can leave pseudoextensions behind (Neuhuber et al., 2004)....
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...…to induce reversible branching in stem cells (Dinsmore et al., 1996; Woodbury et al., 2002), but DMSO also causes fibroblasts to appear ‘‘branched,’’ and this appears due to cytoskeletal disruption with centripetal retraction of the cell body that leaves extensions attached (Neuhuber et al., 2004)....
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...On the stiffest, osteogenic matrices, MSCs upregulate the transcription factor CBFa1 (Figure 3A; open arrow), which is a crucial early marker of osteogenesis (Gilbert et al., 2002)....
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