Stress fibers and cellular protrusions in any direction could undergo retraction responses. In the upper left branch of the cell shown here, stress fibers that are nearly perpendicular to the stretch direction (stretch direction: vertical) depolymerize following stretch. These images were deconvoluted using standard techniques and a theoretical point spread function to highlight stress fibers.
Lee S, Nekouzadeh A, Butler B, Pryse K, McConnaughey W, Nathan A, Legant W, Schaefer P, Pless R, Elson E, Genin G
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Movie S5 from <cite style="font-style:normal">Lee S, Nekouzadeh A, Butler B, Pryse K, McConnaughey W, Nathan A, Legant W, Schaefer P, Pless R, Elson E, Genin G (2012). "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3531413">Physically-Induced Cytoskeleton Remodeling of Cells in Three-Dimensional Culture</a>". <i>PLOS ONE</i>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier" class="extiw" title="w:Digital object identifier">DOI</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0045512">10.1371/journal.pone.0045512</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PMID" class="extiw" title="w:PMID">PMID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23300512">23300512</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubMed_Central" class="extiw" title="w:PubMed Central">PMC</a>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3531413">3531413</a>.</cite>