单微吸管测量细胞切向粘附力方法的研究

本文对单微吸管测量细胞切向粘附力的方法进行简要的力学分析,结果表明该方法不失为一种简单易行的切向粘附力测量方法,有助于研究个体细胞与不同基底材料之间的粘附性能,以及不同药物、粘附分子对细胞切向粘附力的影响,扩大了微管吸吮技术的应用范围,并对单微吸管细胞切向粘附力测量方法的测量左范围进行了讨论。通过对人成骨细胞切向粘附力的测量,结果表明该方法可满足细胞生物力学实验的要求。     

CD44-配体相互作用的生物力学与功能调控

作为一种广谱表达的细胞粘附分子, I型跨膜糖蛋白CD44(cluster of differentiation 44)参与细胞增殖、分化、迁移, 血管生成等生物学过程,对于介导细胞信号转导, 调节组织稳态等功能具有关键作用. 特别地,CD44-选择素、CD44 -透明质酸相互作用介导的细胞粘附动力学在经典炎症反应、肿瘤转移或组织特异的肝脏免疫中具有重要作用.该综述分别从细胞层次粘附动力学、二维与三维条件下的分子层次反应动力学、原子层次微观结构以及胞内信号转导通路等方面综述了CD44 -选择素、CD44 -透明质酸相互作用的研究进展及尚待回答的生物力学问题.力学、物理因素对生命活动的不可或缺性逐渐被研究者们接受,力学医学、力学免疫学、力学组学等新概念相继提出. 生理、病理条件下,CD44 -配体相互作用介导的细胞粘附必将受到血流剪切、基底硬度等力学、物理微环境的调控,但是其调控机制还远不清楚. 基于此,本文就CD44 -配体相互作用相关的未来研究方向做出展望, 主要包括:力学、物理因素如何调控CD44 -配体相互作用介导的细胞粘附动力学及其内在机制;CD44 -配体相互作用反应动力学的力学调控规律及结构基础是什么;以及力学作用下CD44 -配体相互作用原子层次的微观结构如何发生动态演化.本文可为深入理解CD44 -配体相互作用的生物学功能及其结构功能关系提供线索.      

红细胞聚集的生物力学基础

红细胞聚集是一种细胞间的非特异粘附．从宏观角度讲,它是一种热力学过程;由不分散的单个细胞发展为三维网状结构．而从细观上看则是一种细胞膜间有大分子参与的弱相互作用．本文对红细胞的聚集形式模型从生物力学角度进行了综述．      

基于自然增长的细胞群粘附数值模拟

细胞群通过表面的粘附分子不断聚集的过程称为细胞群粘附, 是生物学许多研究领域(早期的胚胎发育、组织的新陈代谢以及肿瘤生长等)的基础. 考虑细胞群的自由运动和细胞群互相之间的粘附力作用, 并引入Logistic模型来描述细胞群自身的自然增长, 从宏观的角度研究细胞群粘附现象, 构建出一个细胞群粘附模型; 其数值模拟结果与实验结果较吻合, 能定性地对不同种类细胞群粘附的最终形态做出预判.      

壁虎粘附微观力学机制的仿生研究进展

本文针对壁虎粘附系统最小单元的真实形状, 类似于有限尺寸纳米薄膜的铲状纤维, 综述了对其微观粘附力学机制主要影响因素的多个研究, 主要考虑了有限尺寸纳米薄膜长度、厚度、撕脱角等对撕脱力的影响; 物体表面粗糙度以及环境湿度等对粘附的影响因素; 包括实验、理论及数值模拟的研究及结果比较. 最后给出仿生粘附力学方向仍然存在的主要科学问题及进一步的研究展望.     

PROGRESS IN THE BIONIC STUDY ON GECKO＇S MICRO-ADHESION MECHANISM

本文针对壁虎粘附系统最小单元的真实形状, 类似于有限尺寸纳米薄膜的铲状纤维, 综述了对其微观粘附力学机制主要影响因素的多个研究, 主要考虑了有限尺寸纳米薄膜长度、厚度、撕脱角等对撕脱力的影响; 物体表面粗糙度以及环境湿度等对粘附的影响因素; 包括实验、理论及数值模拟的研究及结果比较. 最后给出仿生粘附力学方向仍然存在的主要科学问题及进一步的研究展望.     

植物细胞力学模型研究进展

植物细胞在结构上具有特殊性, 即细胞壁和胞内物质在力学性质上差异很大. 因此其力学模型的研究具有特殊意义. 植物细胞力学模型是植物组织力学行为的研究基础, 是连接宏观与微观生物力学发展的桥梁, 在农业和食品加工等领域中有重要的潜在应用价值. 本文就目前国际上在细胞力学模型研究中所采用的模型形式和理论分析与数值模拟等方法做较全面而简要的介绍, 并对本领域中存在的现实问题加以论述, 希望能够对我国在细胞力学领域的研究有所帮助.      

骨组织生长重建的力学生物学机制研究进展

生物力学已被证实是骨组织生长、重建及成形当中一个十分重要的因素. 骨组织的损 伤修复过程本质上是细胞的生物学过程和应力作用下的生长过程. 这虽然肯定了生物力学在 骨组织生长、重建过程中的重要地位, 但是, 人们对生物力学因素如何诱导骨生长、 重建的力学生物学机制仍不甚了解. 而骨组织工程需要更为科学完善的细胞生物学机制来研究和探 索骨组织的构建过程. 本文概述了国内外生物力学与骨组织生长重建的宏微观理论, 主要讨 论了骨组织结构及功能形成过程中的力学生物学相关问题.     

细胞力学实验技术研究

本文介绍了近年来现代生物力学领域内,细胞力学研究过程中所采用的各种实验技术,并根据实验方法的不同将其大致归纳为四类：单个细胞加载实验技术,细胞介质间接及流变学加载实验技术,细胞基底应变加载技术,细胞分子学加载技术,并指出细胞乃至分子的力学实验技术的进展将对细胞生物力学的发展起着决定性的作用,特别是对生物医学工程的最前没领域-组织工程学中的应力与生长有着重大的影响。     

原子尺度摩擦行为的分子动力学模拟

应用大规模分子动力学方法,模拟了具有原子级光滑和原子级粗糙形貌的刚性球形探头与弹性平面基体的干摩擦行为,研究了无/有粘附条件下的载荷与摩擦力、载荷与真实接触面积,以及摩擦力与真实接触面积之间的关系,对纳米尺度下的摩擦行为规律进行了分析。几种系统的真实接触面积－载荷关系都与相应的连续力学接触模型定性的一致,它们分别是Hertz光滑表面接触模型、Greenwood-Williamson粗糙表面接触模型和Maugis-Dugdale粘着接触模型。无论是由光滑表面还是粗糙表面构成的摩擦系统,在无粘附条件下摩擦力与载荷成正比,而摩擦力与真实接触面积之间没有一个简单的关系;在粘附条件下摩擦力与真实接触面积成正比,而摩擦力与载荷之间表现为Maugis-Dugdale模型预测的亚线性关系。我们的研究表明,当表面作用从无粘附到粘附时,控制摩擦力的决定因素从载荷转变为接触面积,摩擦行为从载荷控制摩擦转变为粘着控制摩擦。     

Probing the mechanosensitivity in cell adhesion and migration: Experiments and modeling

Cell adhesion and migration are basic physiological processes in living organisms. Cells can actively probe their mechanical micro-environment and respond to the external stimuli through cell adhesion. Cells need to move to the targeting place to perform function via cell migration. For adherent cells, cell migration is mediated by cell-matrix adhesion and cell-cell adhesion. Experimental approaches, especially at early stage of investigation, are indispensable to studies of cell mechanics when even qualitative behaviors of cell as well as fundamental factors in cell behaviors are unclear. Currently, there is increasingly accumulation of experimental data of measurement, thus a quantitative formulation of cell behaviors and the relationship among these fundamental factors are highly needed. This quantitative understanding should be crucial to tissue engineering and biomedical engineering when people want to accurately regulate or control cell behaviors from single cell level to tissue level. In this review, we will elaborate recent advances in the experimental and theoretical studies on cell adhesion and migration, with particular focuses laid on recent advances in experimental techniques and theoretical modeling, through which challenging problems in the cell mechanics are suggested.     

CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOMECHANICS: PERSPECTIVES AND CHALLENGES

As an intriguing interdisciplinary research field,cell and molecular biomechanics is at the cutting edge of mechanics in general and biomechanics in particular.It has the potential to provide a quantitative understanding of how forces and deformation at tissue,cellular and molecular levels affect human health and disease.In this article,we review the recent advances in cell and molecular biomechanics,examine the available computational and experimental tools,and discuss important issues including protein deformation in mechanotransduction,cell deformation and constitutive behavior,cell adhesion and migration,and the associated models and theories.The opportunities and challenges in cell and molecular biomechanics are also discussed.We hope to provide readers a clear picture of the current status of this field,and to stimulate a broader interest in the applied mechanics community.     

On hyperelastic stress-strain law of F-actin bundles

Parallel F-actin bundles are a class of organized semiflexible polymers that play a critical role in cell mechanics, including cell adhesion, cell spreading, cell migration, mitosis and intracellular transport. Here we develop an analytical model of hyperelastic behaviors of an F-actin bundle by considering a wormlike chain confined in a harmonic potential. Closed form solutions are obtained for the axial stress—strain relation of an F-actin bundle under stretch.     

CONCAVE BIOLOGICAL SURFACES FOR STRONG WET ADHESION

Plant leaves, insects and geckos are masters of adhesion or anti-adhesion by smartly designed refined surface structures with micro- and nano- ＇technologies＇. Understanding the basic principles in the design of the unique surface structures is of great importance in the manufacture or synthesis of micro- and nano- devices in MEMS or NEMS. This study is right inspired by this effort, focusing on the mechanics of wet adhesion between fibers having concave tips and a flat substrate via capillary forces. We show that the concave surface can effectively enhance the wet adhesion by reducing the effective contact angle of the fiber, firmly pinning the liquid bridge at its circumferential edge. A critical contact angle is identified below which the adhesion strength can achieve its maximum, being insensitive to the contact angle between the fiber and liquid. The analytical expression for the critical angle is derived. Then a tentative design for the profile of concave surfaces is proposed, considering the effects of chamfering size, deformation and buckling, etc. The effect of liquid volume on the wet adhesion of multiple-fiber system is also discussed.     

ON THE MECHANICS OF INTEGRIN CLUSTERING DURING CELL-SUBSTRATE ADHESION

Recent numerical simulations have indicated that integrin clustering during cellsubstrate adhesion can be driven by the presence of a repulsive layer between the cell membrane and the substrate(Paszek et al.,PLoS Comput Biol 5:12,2009).Here we present a simple mechanics model of this phenomenon in which the attraction between integrins is mediated by the long-range elastic deformation of the membrane and the repulsive layer.We obtain analytical solutions to the problem by employing the small deformation theory of an infinitely extended plate resting on an elastic foundation.     

Mechanopathology of red blood cell diseases — Why mechanics matters

During the onset of a disease a cell may experience alterations in both the composition and organization of its cellular and molecular structures. These alterations may eventually lead to changes in its geometrical and mechanical properties such as cell size and shape, deformability and adhesion. As such, knowing how diseased cells respond to mechanical forces can reveal ways by which they differ from healthy ones. Here, we will present biomechanistic insights into red blood cell related diseases that manifest mechanical property changes and how they directly contribute to the pathophysiology of diseases. By conducting cell and molecular mechanics studies, not only can we elucidate changes in the structure-property-function relationship of diseased cells, we can also exploit the new knowledge gained to develop biomechanics based devices that may better detect and diagnose these diseases as well as help identify important biomechanical targets for possible therapeutic interventions.     

Specific adhesion of a soft elastic body on a wavy surface

This paper aims at developing a stochastic-elastic model of a soft elastic body adhering on a wavy surface via a patch of molecular bonds. The elastic deformation of the system is modeled by using continuum contact mechanics, while the stochastic behavior of adhesive bonds is modeled by using Bell's type of exponential bond association/dissociation rates. It is found that for sufficiently small adhesion patch size or stress concentration index, the adhesion strength is insensitive to the wavelength but decreases with the amplitude of surface undulation, and that for large adhesion patch size or stress concentration index, there exist optimal values of the surface wavelength and amplitude for maximum adhesion strength.     

Contact radius of stamps in reversible adhesion

A mechanics model is developed for the contact radius of stamps with pyramid tips in transfer printing. This is important to the realization of reversible control of adhesion, which has many important applications, such as climbing robots, medical tapes, and transfer printing of electronics. The contact radius is shown to scale linearly with the work of adhesion between the stamp and the contacting surface, and inversely with the plane-strain modulus of the stamp. It also depends on the cone angle and tip radius of the stamp, but is essentially independent of details of the tip geometry.     

生物黏附与黏附力学的进展

介绍了动物及昆虫黏附能力及黏附系统的实验研究，重点介绍了力学仿生动物 及昆虫的黏附能力及黏附系统的研究工作. 还简单介绍实验室仿生制备及仿生黏附潜在 的用途，并对仿生黏附力学新的研究方向提出建议.     

细胞骨架生物力学进展

细胞骨架力学作为力学细胞生物学的一个新兴领域, 其研究方法突破传统细胞力学思想, 不再把活细胞简化为皮质膜包着的弹性、黏性或黏弹性连续介质体, 而是基于在细胞变形和功能中发挥重要作用的细胞骨架离散网络结构, 在微/纳米尺度建立一种集细胞形态和功能于一体的离散网络结构. 这种细胞骨架模型作为细胞变形和生化事件调控的纽带, 能从分子层次上阐述细胞运动、能量转换、信息传递、基因表达等重大生命活动的潜在机制,同时也能解释生物大分子间相互作用、受体/配体特异性相互作用、大分子自装配、细胞及分子层次的力学-化学耦合, 为定量研究细胞-亚细胞-生物大分子等在多种力学刺激下的响应建立了良好的平台, 对于理解生物模式形成、生物复杂性以及解决重大生物学难题具有深远意义. 本文基于细胞骨架三维离散网络结构特点及其生物学背景, 从生物力学角度详细阐述近几年国际上流行的细胞骨架模型理论分析和研究成果的最新进展.