sample of publications

• articles 

  • Mechanical and Functional Responses in Astrocytes under Alternating Deformation Modes Using Magneto-Active Substrates.  ADVANCED MATERIALS.  36:1-15. 2024
  • Author Correction: Highly specific and non-invasive imaging of Piezo1-dependent activity across scales using GenEPi (Nature Communications, (2023), 14, 1, (4352), 10.1038/s41467-023-40134-y).  Nature Communications.  14:1. 2023
  • Retinoic acid receptor ß modulates mechanosensing and invasion in pancreatic cancer cells via myosin light chain 2.  Oncogenesis.  12:1-11. 2023
  • RGD density along with substrate stiffness regulate hPSC hepatocyte functionality through YAP signalling.  BIOMATERIALS.  293:1-17. 2023
  • Substrate Stiffness-Driven Membrane Tension Modulates Vesicular Trafficking via Caveolin-1.  ACS Nano.  16:4322-4337. 2022
  • Author Correction: The guidance receptor plexin D1 is a mechanosensor in endothelial cells (Nature, (2020), 578, 7794, (290-295), 10.1038/s41586-020-1979-4).  NATURE.  605:E6. 2022
  • Self-assembling Polypeptide Hydrogels as a Platform to Recapitulate the Tumor Microenvironment.  Cancers.  13:1-25. 2021
  • G Protein-Coupled Estrogen Receptor Regulates Actin Cytoskeleton Dynamics to Impair Cell Polarization.  Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology.  8:1-13. 2020
  • Syndecan-4 tunes cell mechanics by activating the kindlin-integrin-RhoA pathway.  NATURE MATERIALS.  19:669-678. 2020
  • The guidance receptor plexin D1 is a mechanosensor in endothelial cells.  NATURE.  578:290-295. 2020
  • GPER activation inhibits cancer cell mechanotransduction and basement membrane invasion via RhoA.  Cancers.  12:1-24. 2020
  • Matrix stiffness modulates the activity of MMP-9 and TIMP-1 in hepatic stellate cells to perpetuate fibrosis.  Scientific Reports.  9:1-9. 2019
  • GPER is a mechanoregulator of pancreatic stellate cells and the tumor microenvironment.  EMBO REPORTS.  20:1-15. 2019
  • Retinoic Acid Receptor-ß Is Downregulated in Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Cirrhosis and Its Expression Inhibits Myosin-Driven Activation and Durotaxis in Hepatic Stellate Cells.  HEPATOLOGY.  69:785-802. 2019
  • Tamoxifen mechanically deactivates hepatic stellate cells via the G protein-coupled estrogen receptor.  ONCOGENE.  38:2910-2922. 2019
  • Tamoxifen mechanically reprograms the tumor microenvironment via HIF-1A and reduces cancer cell survival.  EMBO REPORTS.  20. 2019
  • FAK controls the mechanical activation of YAP, a transcriptional regulator required for durotaxis.  FASEB JOURNAL.  32:1099-1107. 2018
  • Mechanotransduction in talin through the interaction of the R8 domain with DLC1.  PLOS BIOLOGY.  16. 2018
  • Matrix stiffness induces epithelial-mesenchymal transition and promotes chemoresistance in pancreatic cancer cells.  Oncogenesis.  6. 2017
  • Substrate Rigidity Controls Activation and Durotaxis in Pancreatic Stellate Cells.  Scientific Reports.  7. 2017
  • ATRA mechanically reprograms pancreatic stellate cells to suppress matrix remodelling and inhibit cancer cell invasion.  Nature Communications.  7. 2016