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Ben Fabry

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Verified email at fau.de
Cited by 21275

Airway smooth muscle dynamics: a common pathway of airway obstruction in asthma

…, M Dowell, DH Eidelman, B Fabry… - European …, 2007 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Excessive airway obstruction is the cause of symptoms and abnormal lung function in asthma.
As airway smooth muscle (ASM) is the effecter controlling airway calibre, it is suspected …

Linear and nonlinear rheology of living cells

P Kollmannsberger, B Fabry - Annual review of materials …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Living cells are an active soft material with fascinating mechanical properties. Under
mechanical loading, cells exhibit creep and stress relaxation behavior that follows a power-law …

[HTML][HTML] The role of the tissue microenvironment in the regulation of cancer cell motility and invasion

…, CT Mierke, D Rösel, P Veselı, B Fabry - Cell communication and …, 2010 - Springer
During malignant neoplastic progression the cells undergo genetic and epigenetic cancer-specific
alterations that finally lead to a loss of tissue homeostasis and restructuring of the …

Scaling the microrheology of living cells

B Fabry, GN Maksym, JP Butler, M Glogauer… - Physical review …, 2001 - APS
We report a scaling law that governs both the elastic and frictional properties of a wide
variety of living cell types, over a wide range of time scales and under a variety of biological …

Traction fields, moments, and strain energy that cells exert on their surroundings

…, IM Tolic-Nørrelykke, B Fabry… - American Journal of …, 2002 - journals.physiology.org
Adherent cells exert tractions on their surroundings. These tractions can be measured by
observing the displacements of beads embedded on a flexible gel substrate on which the cells …

[HTML][HTML] Microrheology of human lung epithelial cells measured by atomic force microscopy

J Alcaraz, L Buscemi, M Grabulosa, X Trepat, B Fabry… - Biophysical journal, 2003 - cell.com
Lung epithelial cells are subjected to large cyclic forces from breathing. However, their response
to dynamic stresses is poorly defined. We measured the complex shear modulus (G * (ω…

Cytoskeletal remodelling and slow dynamics in the living cell

P Bursac, G Lenormand, B Fabry, M Oliver, DA Weitz… - Nature materials, 2005 - nature.com
The cytoskeleton (CSK) is a crowded network of structural proteins that stabilizes cell shape
and drives cell motions. Recent studies on the dynamics of the CSK have established that a …

Time scale and other invariants of integrative mechanical behavior in living cells

B Fabry, GN Maksym, JP Butler, M Glogauer… - Physical Review E, 2003 - APS
In dealing with systems as complex as the cytoskeleton, we need organizing principles or,
short of that, an empirical framework into which these systems fit. We report here unexpected …

[HTML][HTML] 3D traction forces in cancer cell invasion

TM Koch, S Münster, N Bonakdar, JP Butler, B Fabry - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Cell invasion through a dense three-dimensional (3D) matrix is believed to depend on the
ability of cells to generate traction forces. To quantify the role of cell tractions during invasion …

Stress controls the mechanics of collagen networks

…, M Sheinman, LM Jawerth, B Fabry… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
… So for every fiber segment of length ℓ 0 , we can express the bending rigidity in dimensionless
form as κ = ℓ b 2 / ℓ 0 2 = κ / μ ℓ 0 2 . The differential shear modulus is derived from the …