Optomechanically Actuated Hydrogel Platform for Cell Stimulation with Spatial and Temporal Resolution.

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"This work was supported by NIH R01GM131099, RM1GM145394, and R01AI172452. H.O. acknowledges the Naito Foundation and the Uehara Memorial Foundation for their research support. The authors thank Dr. Young Jang at the Georgia Institute of Technology for providing the C2C12 cells used in this work, and for providing feedback on the analyses. They thank Dr. Johnna Temenoff and Dr. Andres Garcia of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Dr. Jarrod Call at the University of Georgia, for providing feedback on this work as well. They also thank Dr. Erik Weeks at Emory University for consultation on rheology and access to the spinning disk rheometer. They thank Art McCanna and the staff of the Robert Apkarian Electron Microscopy Core at Emory University for access to and consultation on electron microscopy, and the Emory Chemistry Mass Spectrometry Center. Finally, the authors thank Dr. Sk Aysha Rashid (Emory University) for consultation on hydrogel synthesis and immunostaining, and Harry Cramer (University of Wisconsin–Madison) for image acquisition advice. Figures 1a and 2a and TOC were prepared using Biorender.com."