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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomed Microdevices. 2016 Jun;18(3):43. doi: 10.1007/s10544-016-0067-x

Figure 4. Temporal evolution of microtissues composed of NIH 3T3 fibroblasts in collagen gels.

Figure 4

Representative images and immunostainings (actin in green, nuclei in blue) depicting the time course of a contracting microtissue tethered to circular (A) and rectangular (B) cantilevers. (C) Temporal evolution of the tension generated by microtissues tethered to rectangular (k = 0.6 N/m, in black) and circular (k = 1.3 N/m, in gray) cantilevers.