Sentences with phrase «mechanical transduction»

For example, it modulates enzymatic activity, induces structural changes in proteins and nucleic acids, alters kinetics of molecular bonds, regulates motion of molecular motors, and has a role in mechanical transduction and sensory functions.

Instead, as he reported in the journal Cell, that mechanical transduction at Merkel discs initiates primarily in the Merkel cells.

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In 2014, Gu's research team overturned the common assumption that transduction from the mechanical force takes place at the endings of the sensory nerves in Merkel discs.

I studied the process called signal transduction - transmission of the activating mechanical signal from outside the cell, across the cellular membrane, to FAK inside the cell, leading to the activation of the kinase.

This physical link between the cytoskeletons of neighboring cells allows for the generation and transduction of mechanical signals.

Studies of satellite cell activation via nitric oxide have opened an exciting area of research on muscle regeneration, growth and the muscle - fiber cytoskeleton that integrates mechanical and biochemical signal transduction with cell and molecular biology of muscle tissue in growth, development, disease, aging and evolution.