| Ensembles of engineered cardiac tissues for physiological and pharmacological study: heart on a chip A Grosberg, PW Alford, ML McCain, KK Parker Lab on a Chip 11 (24), 4165-4173, 2011 | 655 | 2011 |
| Controlling the contractile strength of engineered cardiac muscle by hierarchal tissue architecture AW Feinberg, PW Alford, H Jin, CM Ripplinger, AA Werdich, SP Sheehy, ... Biomaterials 33 (23), 5732-5741, 2012 | 304 | 2012 |
| Anisotropic forces from spatially constrained focal adhesions mediate contact guidance directed cell migration A Ray, O Lee, Z Win, RM Edwards, PW Alford, DH Kim, PP Provenzano Nature communications 8 (1), 14923, 2017 | 301 | 2017 |
| Biohybrid thin films for measuring contractility in engineered cardiovascular muscle PW Alford, AW Feinberg, SP Sheehy, KK Parker Biomaterials 31 (13), 3613-3621, 2010 | 235 | 2010 |
| Growth and remodeling in a thick-walled artery model: effects of spatial variations in wall constituents PW Alford, JD Humphrey, LA Taber Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology 7 (4), 245-262, 2008 | 211 | 2008 |
| Cyclic strain induces dual-mode endothelial-mesenchymal transformation of the cardiac valve K Balachandran, PW Alford, J Wylie-Sears, JA Goss, A Grosberg, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (50), 19943-19948, 2011 | 203 | 2011 |
| Vascular smooth muscle contractility depends on cell shape PW Alford, AP Nesmith, JN Seywerd, A Grosberg, KK Parker Integrative Biology 3 (11), 1063-1070, 2011 | 180 | 2011 |
| Blast-induced phenotypic switching in cerebral vasospasm PW Alford, BE Dabiri, JA Goss, MA Hemphill, MD Brigham, KK Parker Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (31), 12705-12710, 2011 | 163 | 2011 |
| The role of mechanical forces in dextral rotation during cardiac looping in the chick embryo DA Voronov, PW Alford, G Xu, LA Taber Developmental biology 272 (2), 339-350, 2004 | 141 | 2004 |
| A possible role for integrin signaling in diffuse axonal injury MA Hemphill, BE Dabiri, S Gabriele, L Kerscher, C Franck, JA Goss, ... PloS one 6 (7), e22899, 2011 | 132 | 2011 |
| Vascular smooth muscle cell functional contractility depends on extracellular mechanical properties KE Steucke, PV Tracy, ES Hald, JL Hall, PW Alford Journal of biomechanics 48 (12), 3044-3051, 2015 | 90 | 2015 |
| Investigation of human iPSC-derived cardiac myocyte functional maturation by single cell traction force microscopy M Wheelwright, Z Win, JL Mikkila, KY Amen, PW Alford, JM Metzger PLoS One 13 (4), e0194909, 2018 | 72 | 2018 |
| Failure of the porcine ascending aorta: multidirectional experiments and a unifying microstructural model CM Witzenburg, RY Dhume, SB Shah, CE Korenczuk, HP Wagner, ... Journal of biomechanical engineering 139 (3), 031005, 2017 | 70 | 2017 |
| Prefailure and failure mechanics of the porcine ascending thoracic aorta: experiments and a multiscale model SB Shah, C Witzenburg, MF Hadi, HP Wagner, JM Goodrich, PW Alford, ... Journal of biomechanical engineering 136 (2), 021028, 2014 | 68 | 2014 |
| Bimodal sensing of guidance cues in mechanically distinct microenvironments ED Tabdanov, VV Puram, Z Win, A Alamgir, PW Alford, PP Provenzano Nature communications 9 (1), 4891, 2018 | 67 | 2018 |
| Computational study of growth and remodelling in the aortic arch PW Alford, LA Taber Computer methods in biomechanics and biomedical engineering 11 (5), 525-538, 2008 | 65 | 2008 |
| The contractile strength of vascular smooth muscle myocytes is shape dependent GJC Ye, Y Aratyn-Schaus, AP Nesmith, FS Pasqualini, PW Alford, ... Integrative Biology 6 (2), 152-163, 2014 | 62 | 2014 |
| Cytoskeletal prestress regulates nuclear shape and stiffness in cardiac myocytes H Lee, WJ Adams, PW Alford, ML McCain, AW Feinberg, SP Sheehy, ... Experimental biology and medicine 240 (11), 1543-1554, 2015 | 53 | 2015 |
| Mechanical injuries of neurons induce tau mislocalization to dendritic spines and tau-dependent synaptic dysfunction NJ Braun, KR Yao, PW Alford, D Liao Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (46), 29069-29079, 2020 | 48 | 2020 |
| Guidelines for the isolation and characterization of murine vascular smooth muscle cells. A report from the International Society of Cardiovascular Translational Research N Adhikari, KC Shekar, R Staggs, Z Win, K Steucke, YW Lin, LN Wei, ... Journal of cardiovascular translational research 8, 158-163, 2015 | 36 | 2015 |
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