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Indentation of living cells by AFM tips may not be what we thought!

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The models used to calculate Young's moduli from atomic force microscopy (AFM) force curves consider the shape of the indentation. It is then assumed that the geometry of the indentation is identical to the geometry of the indenter, which has been verified for hard materials (E > 1 MPa). Based on this assumption, the force curves calculated by these models, for the same object with a given Young's modulus, are different if the indenter geometry is different. On the contrary, we observe experimentally that the force curves recorded on soft living cells, with pyramidal, spherical, or tipless indenters, are almost similar. This indicates that this basic assumption on the indentation geometry does not work for soft materials (E of the order of 5 kPa or less). This means that, in this case, the shape of the indentation is therefore different from the shape of the indenter. Indentation of living cells by AFM is not what we thought!
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hal-04193549 , version 1 (04-09-2023)

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Ophélie Thomas- -Chemin, Childérick Séverac, Emmanuelle Trévisiol, Etienne Dague. Indentation of living cells by AFM tips may not be what we thought!. Micron, 2023, 174, pp.103523. ⟨10.1016/j.micron.2023.103523⟩. ⟨hal-04193549⟩
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