| Mechanics, malignancy, and metastasis: the force journey of a tumor cell S Kumar, VM Weaver Cancer and Metastasis Reviews 28, 113-127, 2009 | 1152 | 2009 |
| The mechanical rigidity of the extracellular matrix regulates the structure, motility, and proliferation of glioma cells TA Ulrich, EM de Juan Pardo, S Kumar Cancer research 69 (10), 4167-4174, 2009 | 1144 | 2009 |
| Microtubules can bear enhanced compressive loads in living cells because of lateral reinforcement CP Brangwynne, FC MacKintosh, S Kumar, NA Geisse, J Talbot, ... Journal of Cell Biology 173 (5), 733-741, 2006 | 827 | 2006 |
| Viscoelastic retraction of single living stress fibers and its impact on cell shape, cytoskeletal organization, and extracellular matrix mechanics S Kumar, IZ Maxwell, A Heisterkamp, TR Polte, TP Lele, M Salanga, ... Biophysical journal 90 (10), 3762-3773, 2006 | 826 | 2006 |
| Independent regulation of tumor cell migration by matrix stiffness and confinement A Pathak, S Kumar Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (26), 10334-10339, 2012 | 688 | 2012 |
| Elucidating the mechanobiology of malignant brain tumors using a brain matrix-mimetic hyaluronic acid hydrogel platform B Ananthanarayanan, Y Kim, S Kumar Biomaterials 32 (31), 7913-7923, 2011 | 406 | 2011 |
| Probing cellular mechanobiology in three-dimensional culture with collagen–agarose matrices TA Ulrich, A Jain, K Tanner, JL MacKay, S Kumar Biomaterials 31 (7), 1875-1884, 2010 | 403 | 2010 |
| Nanomagnetic actuation of receptor-mediated signal transduction RJ Mannix, S Kumar, F Cassiola, M Montoya-Zavala, E Feinstein, ... Nature nanotechnology 3 (1), 36-40, 2008 | 361 | 2008 |
| Mechanical forces alter zyxin unbinding kinetics within focal adhesions of living cells TP Lele, JAY Pendse, S Kumar, M Salanga, J Karavitis, DE Ingber Journal of cellular physiology 207 (1), 187-194, 2006 | 284 | 2006 |
| Biophysical regulation of tumor cell invasion: moving beyond matrix stiffness A Pathak, S Kumar Integrative Biology 3 (4), 267-278, 2011 | 283 | 2011 |
| CD44-mediated adhesion to hyaluronic acid contributes to mechanosensing and invasive motility Y Kim, S Kumar Molecular Cancer Research 12 (10), 1416-1429, 2014 | 271 | 2014 |
| Emergent cellular self-organization and mechanosensation initiate follicle pattern in the avian skin AE Shyer, AR Rodrigues, GG Schroeder, E Kassianidou, S Kumar, ... Science 357, 811-815, 2017 | 253 | 2017 |
| Rho GTPases mediate the mechanosensitive lineage commitment of neural stem cells AJ Keung, EM de Juan-Pardo, DV Schaffer, S Kumar Stem cells 29 (11), 1886-1897, 2011 | 249 | 2011 |
| Pulse energy dependence of subcellular dissection by femtosecond laser pulses A Heisterkamp, IZ Maxwell, E Mazur, JM Underwood, JA Nickerson, ... Optics express 13 (10), 3690-3696, 2005 | 240 | 2005 |
| Platelet mechanosensing of substrate stiffness during clot formation mediates adhesion, spreading, and activation Y Qiu, AC Brown, DR Myers, Y Sakurai, RG Mannino, R Tran, B Ahn, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (40), 14430-14435, 2014 | 223 | 2014 |
| Presentation counts: microenvironmental regulation of stem cells by biophysical and material cues AJ Keung, S Kumar, DV Schaffer Annual review of cell and developmental biology 26 (1), 533-556, 2010 | 197 | 2010 |
| Soft microenvironments promote the early neurogenic differentiation but not self-renewal of human pluripotent stem cells AJ Keung, P Asuri, S Kumar, DV Schaffer Integrative Biology 4 (9), 1049-1058, 2012 | 184 | 2012 |
| A synthetic hydrogel for the high-throughput study of cell–ECM interactions AD Rape, M Zibinsky, N Murthy, S Kumar Nature communications 6, 8129, 2015 | 174 | 2015 |
| Hyaluronic acid: incorporating the bio into the material KJ Wolf, S Kumar ACS biomaterials science & engineering 5 (8), 3753-3765, 2019 | 170 | 2019 |
| Dynamics of mechanosensitive neural stem cell differentiation S Rammensee, MS Kang, K Georgiou, S Kumar, DV Schaffer Stem cells 35 (2), 497-506, 2017 | 166 | 2017 |
