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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 24.
Published in final edited form as: J Phys Chem B. 2013 May 30;117(42):10.1021/jp4020965. doi: 10.1021/jp4020965

Figure 1. Measurement of Cell Generated Forces.

Figure 1

a. The intercellular stress balances the build up of cell-cell substrate tractions. b. HLMVEC monolayers are plated on collagen-coated polyacrylamide gels with shear modulus of 1.2 kPa. The gels are prepared with patterned islands of collagen I so that the cells grow to confluence as a 700um island. c. Example of traction map (generated with Fourier Transform Traction Microscopy13b from which, d. the map of intercellular stress can be calculated by MSM.