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2024-2025 University Catalog 
    
2024-2025 University Catalog

BME 54200 - Cell & Tissue Mechanics


Credit Hours: 3.00.  This course develops and applies scaling approaches and simplified models to biomechanical phenomena at molecular, cellular, and tissue level. Topics include: Molecular forces; Viscous drag; Brownian motion; Diffusion; Polymer mechanics; Polymer dynamics; Molecular motors; Cytoskeleton; Viscoelasticity; Membrane; Cell migration; Cell adhesion; Mechanobiology; Mechanotransduction; Elastic, viscoelastic. and poroelastic behavior or tissues & Cell-matrix interaction.Credits: 3.00