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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 25.
Published in final edited form as: Biochemistry. 2012 Sep 10;51(38):7420–7432. doi: 10.1021/bi300758e

Figure 3. Mechanical forces in cell biology.

Figure 3

Diagram summarizing the different types of force that cells can experience. These can be externally applied (A) or generated by the cell itself and its own cytoskeleton (B). The effect on RhoA activity is indicated for each example. Force is a vector with magnitude and direction that causes an object with mass to change its velocity (SI unit Newton). Stress: force per unit of area (SI unit Pascal).