... 07 2014 The aim of this paper is to determine the strain-rate-dependent mechanical behavior of living and fixed osteocytes and chondrocytes, in vitro. First, atomic force microscopy (AFM) was used to obtain the force–indentation curves of these single cells at four different strain-rates...

...Rami K. Korhonen; Petro Julkunen; Wouter Wilson; Walter Herzog The collagen network and proteoglycan matrix of articular cartilage are thought to play an important role in controlling the stresses and strains in and around chondrocytes, in regulating the biosynthesis of the solid matrix...

... of motors with which the organelles are associated, and the mechanical properties of the cytoplasm. This paper presents a study that characterizes the diffusive motion of mitochondria in chondrocytes seeded in agarose constructs and what this implies about the mechanical properties of the cytoplasm. Method...