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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2016
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Elliot L. Botvinick, Irvine, CA (US);
Vasan Venugopalan, Irvine, CA (US);
Jonathan Compton, Irvine, CA (US);
Amy Hellman, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
The Regents of The University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and device are disclosed for inducing mechanical stress in a cellular sample to evaluate mechanotransduction in the cellular sample. In one embodiment, the mechanical stress is induced by generating a microcavitation bubble in the cellular sample using a pulsed energy. The microcavitation bubble creates a microtsunami, which provides a transient, impulsive mechanical stress on the cellular sample, forming a gradient of effects at distances away from the microcavitation bubble.