Active Microrheology of Magnetically-aligned Fibrin Gel to Measure Stiffness Anisotropy

摘要

AMR successfully measures local stiffness anisotropy in magnetically-aligned fibrin gel. Ruthenium-catalyzed photo-crosslinking can be used to create fibrin gels with varying anisotropic stiffness without changing the fibrin composition. This combination of methods will allow the stiffness anisotropy hypothesis of contact guidance to be thoroughly tested.