A cell undergoes many genetic and epigenetic changes as it transitions to malignancy.
Malignant transformation is also accompanied by a progressive loss of tissue homeostasis …

From times immemorial manual palpation served as a source of information on the state of
soft tissues and allowed detection of various diseases accompanied by changes in tissue …

Since its first description in wound granulation tissue, the myofibroblast has been
recognized to be a key actor in the epithelial-mesenchymal cross-talk that plays a crucial …

Metastases from different cancer types most often affect the lung parenchyma. Moreover, the
lungs are among the most frequent sites of growth of metastatic masses of …

Desmosplasia is a characteristic of most solid tumors and leads to fibrosis through abnormal
extracellular matrix (ECM) deposition, remodeling, and posttranslational modifications. The …

Results Cell plasticity allows adaptative strategies for cancer cells to survive or eventually
escape from tumoral environment through modification of the microenvironment–cell …

Dynamic elastography has become a new clinical tool in recent years to characterize the
elastic properties of soft tissues in vivo, which are important for the disease diagnosis, eg …

The study of new tissue mechanical properties such as shear nonlinearity could lead to
better tissue characterization and clinical diagnosis. This work proposes a method …

The tensile behaviour of standard and auxetic polyurethane foams are contrasted by digital
volume correlation of 3D images collected by in situ X‐ray computed tomography (CT). It …

Objective To define the roles of gray-scale, color-Doppler ultrasound, and sonoelastography
for the assessment of thyroid nodule to determine whether nodule size affects the differential …