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Dispositif et procédé pour l'évaluation de la contraction cellulaire

A method for assessing cell contraction includes adhering contractile cells to an oxidized and cellular adhesion activated surface of a biocompatible silicone elastomer film. The biocompatible silicone elastomer film allows the cells to contract and wrinkl ...

2017

The Nano-Scale Mechanical Properties of the Extracellular Matrix Regulate Dermal Fibroblast Function

Jean-Jacques Meister, Boris Hinz, Lara Buscemi Estefanell, Josiane Angèle Charlotte Smith-Clerc

Changes in the mechanical properties of dermis occur during skin aging or tissue remodeling and affect the activity of resident fibroblasts. With the aim to establish elastic culture substrates that reproduce the variable softness of dermis, we determined ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

The Mechanical Environment Modulates Intracellular Calcium Oscillation Activities of Myofibroblasts

Boris Hinz, Adriano Garonna, Lysianne Follonier Castella

Myofibroblast contraction is fundamental in the excessive tissue remodeling that is characteristic of fibrotic tissue contractures. Tissue remodeling during development of fibrosis leads to gradually increasing stiffness of the extracellular matrix. We pro ...

Public Library Science2013

Triplet imaging of oxygen consumption during the contraction of a single smooth muscle cell (A7r5)

Theo Lasser, Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Kai Johnsson, Marcel Leutenegger, Boris Hinz, Iwan Märki, Thiemo Spielmann, Aurélie Formey de Saint Louvent, Matthias Geissbühler

Triplet imaging is a novel optical technique that allows investigating oxy- gen metabolism at the single cell and the sub-cellular level. The method combines high temporal and spatial resolution, which are required for the monitoring of fast kinetics of ox ...

Springer Science+Business Media2012

The Single-Molecule Mechanics of the Latent TGF-beta 1 Complex

Jean-Jacques Meister, Boris Hinz, Lara Buscemi Estefanell, Aurélie Formey de Saint Louvent, Josiane Angèle Charlotte Smith-Clerc, David Ramonet Jimenez

Background: TGF-beta 1 controls many pathophysiological processes including tissue homeostasis, fibrosis, and cancer progression. Together with its latency-associated peptide (LAP), TGF-beta 1 binds to the latent TGF-beta 1-binding protein-1 (LTBP-1), whic ...

Elsevier2011

A novel culture system provides high yields of non-fibrogenic primary dermal fibroblasts for grafting applications

Hicham Majd, Boris Hinz

Amer Soc Cell Biology2011

Tumor cell invasion is promoted by interstitial flow-induced matrix priming by stromal fibroblasts

Melody Swartz, Boris Hinz, Adrian Chung-Kai Shieh

Interstitial flow emanates from tumors into the microenvironment where it promotes tumor cell invasion. Fibroblasts are key constituents of the tumor stroma that modulate the mechanical environment by matrix remodeling and contraction. Here, we explore how ...

American Association for Cancer Research2011

A New Lock-step Mechanism of Matrix Remodelling Based on Subcellular Contractile Events

Jean-Jacques Meister, Boris Hinz, Lara Buscemi Estefanell, Lysianne Follonier Castella

Myofibroblasts promote tissue contractures during fibrotic diseases. To understand how spontaneous changes in the intracellular calcium concentration, Ca2+, contribute to myofibroblast contraction, we analysed both Ca2+ and subcellular contractio ...

Company of Biologists2010

Hypoxia Impairs Skin Myofibroblast Differentiation and Function

Boris Hinz, Giorgio Pietramaggiori

Ischemic wounds are characterized by oxygen levels lower than that of healthy skin ( hypoxia) and poor healing. To better understand the pathophysiology of impaired wound healing, we investigated how switching from high ( 21%) to low ( 2%) oxygen levels di ...

Nature Publishing Group2010

Coated medical device and method of coating a medical device to reduce, fibrosis and capsule formation

Hicham Majd, Boris Hinz, Giorgio Pietramaggiori

Coating for a medical device comprising cell-adhesive proteins having the ability to reduce fibrous reaction, said coating being in the form of separate islets having an individual area which is less than 12 [mu]m2 and wherein the distance between the isle ...

2010