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Fig. 7

From: Trends in mechanobiology guided tissue engineering and tools to study cell-substrate interactions: a brief review

Fig. 7

Various key operating modes of AFM and its complementary techniques for studying mechanobiology, including (1) bio-imaging: studying mechanical properties in an aqueous environment, (2) studying in the customized chamber for controlling temperature, pH, and humidity with complimentary light microscope imaging, (3) studying the mechanical properties with the addition of pharmaceutical agents, (4) combining optical microscopy techniques and AFM for simultaneous studying of mechanical and biological properties and (5) frequency sweep and time-dependent analysis of mechanical properties of cells

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Biomaterials Research

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