edited by Hiroshi Wada (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan)

Table of Contents (29k)
Preface (21k)
Chapter 1: The Effect of Streptomycin and Gentamicin On Outer Hair Cell Motility (146k)

A project on “Biomechanics at Micro- and Nanoscale Levels”, the title of this book, was approved by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan in 2003; and this four-year project is now being carried out by fourteen prominent Japanese researchers.

At the 5th World Congress of Biomechanics held in Munich, Germany, from 29th July to 4th August, 2006, we organized the following sessions: Thread 3: Biomechanics at micro- and nanoscale levels — (1) cell mechanics; (2) molecular biomechanics; (3) mechanobiology at micro- and nanoscale levels; and (4) computational biomechanics. The present proceedings volume covers topics related to these sessions, and follows on from where the previous two volumes left off. This book is essential reading for those interested in understanding current trends of research in the area of biomechanics at micro- and nanoscale levels.

• 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.)