Biomechanics at Micro- And Nanoscale Levels, Volume 3

Covers topics related to the sessions at the 5th World Congress of Biomechanics held in Munich, Germany, from 29th July to 4th August, 2006.

Cell Mechanics: The Effect of Streptomycin and Gentamicin on Outer Hair Cell Motility (B Currall et al.); Mechanotransduction in Bone Cell Networks (X E Guo et al.); Intracellular Measurements of Strain Transfer with Texture Correlation (C L Gilchrist et al.); Cell Response to Mechanical Stimulation: Identifying the Mechanisms of Flow-Enhanced Cell Adhesion via Dimensional Analysis (C Zhu et al.); A Sliding-Rebinding Mechanism for Catch Bonds (J Lou et al.); Role of External Mechanical Forces in Cell Signal Transduction (S R K Vedula et al.); Tissue Engineering: Evaluation of Material Property of Tissue-Engineered Cartilage by Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy (S Miyata et al.); Scaffolding Technology for Cartilage and Osteochondral Tissue Engineering (G Chen et al.); Computational Biomechanics: MRI Measurements and CFD Analysis of Hemodynamics in the Aorta and the Left Ventricle (M Nakamura et al.); A Fluid-Solid Interactions Study of the Pulse Wave Velocity in Uniform Arteries (T Fukui et al.); Rule-based Simulation of Arterial Wall Thickening Induced by Low Wall Shear Stress (S Wada et al.).