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Book Chapter:

• "Role of mechanics in Heart Failure", T Wakatsuki, Springer (2005) Encyclopedic Reference of Molecular Mechanisms of Disease

Journal Articles:

• "Reconstitution of Frank-Starling Mechanism in Engineered Cardiac Tissues", T. Wakatsuki, T. Eschenhagen and E. L. Elson (in revision).
• "The Heart's Biochemical Response to Hypertension and Exercise" T. Wakatsuki, J. Schlessinger, and E. L. Elson, Trends in Biochemical Sciences (2004) 29(11): 609-17.
• "Phenotypic Screening for Pharmaceuticals using Tissue Constructs", T. Wakatsuki, J. A. Fee, and E. L. Elson, Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (2004) 5: 181-189.
• "Rho-kinase-mediated Calcium-independent Contraction in Rat Embryo Fibroblasts." D. A. Emmert, J. A Fee, Z. M. Goeckeler, T. Wakatsuki, E. L. Elson, P. Herring, P. J. Gallagher, and R. B. Wysolmerski, American Journal of Physiology – Cell Physiology (2004) 286: C8-21.
• "Continual assembly of desmosomes within stable intercellular contacts of epithelial A-431 cells", N. A. Gloushankova, T. Wakatsuki, R. B. Troyanovsky, E. L. Elson, S. M. Troyanovsky. Cell Tissue Res. (2003) 314: 399-410.
• "One-Dimensional Viscoelastic Behavior of Fibroblast Populated Collagen Matrices", J. E. Wagenseil, T. Wakatsuki, R. J. Okamoto, G. I. Zahalak, and E. L. Elson, Journal of Biomech. Eng. (2003) 125: 719-25.
• "Reciprocal Interactions between Cells and Extracellular Matrix during Remodeling of Tissue Constructs" T. Wakatsuki, E. L. Elson, Biophysical Chemistry (2003) 100, 593-605.
• "Mechanics of Cell Spreading; Role of Myosin II" T. Wakatsuki, R. B. Wysolmerski, E. L. Elson, Journal of Cell Science (2003) 116: 1617-1625.
• "Effects of Cytochalasin D and Latrunculin B on Mechanical Properties of Cells." T. Wakatsuki, B. Schwab, N. C. Thompson, E. L. Elson, Journal of Cell Science (2001) 114, 1025-36.
• "Cell Mechanics Studied by a Reconstituted Model Tissue" T. Wakatsuki, M. S. Kolodney, G. I. Zahalak, and E. L. Elson, Biophysics Journal (2000) 79, 2353-68.
• "A Cell-based Constitutive Relation for Bio-artificial Tissues" G. I. Zahalak, J. E. Wagenseil, T. Wakatsuki, and E. L. Elson, Biophysical Journal (2000) 79, 2369-81.
• "Collagen Receptor Control of Epithelial Morphogenesis and Cell Cycle Progression" M. M. Zutter, S.A. Santoro, J. E. Wu, T. Wakatsuki, S. K. Dickeson, and E. L. Elson, American Journal of Pathology (1999) 155, 927-40.
• "Three Dimensional Reconstitution of Embryonic Cardiomyocytes in a Collagen Matrix: A New Heart Muscle Model System" T. Eschenhagen,. U Remmers, H. Schoz, J. Wattchow, J. Weil, W. Zimmermann, H. H. Dohmen, H. Schafer, N. Bishopric, T. Wakatsuki, E. L. Elson, FASEB Journal (1997) 11, 683-94.