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Effect Of Aging On Cellular Mechanotransduction, Miaozong Wu, Jacqueline Fannin, Kevin Rice, Bin Wang, Eric Blough
Effect Of Aging On Cellular Mechanotransduction, Miaozong Wu, Jacqueline Fannin, Kevin Rice, Bin Wang, Eric Blough
Eric Blough
Aging is becoming a critical heath care issue and a burgeoning economic burden on society. Mechanotransduction is the ability of the cell to sense, process, and respond to mechanical stimuli and is an important regulator of physiologic function that has been found to play a role in regulating gene expression, protein synthesis, cell differentiation, tissue growth, and most recently, the pathophysiology of disease. Here we will review some of the recent findings of this field and attempt, where possible, to present changes in mechanotransduction that are associated with the aging process in several selected physiological systems, including musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, neuronal, …