An Approach to Visualize the Deformation of the Intermediate Filament Cytoskeleton in Response to Locally Applied Forces

<table>Fibroblast cells transfected with GFP-vimentin-labeled IFs. (a) A cell expressing GFP IFs before photobleaching. (b) The IFs after photobleaching a grid pattern using the LSCM (Scale bar = 10 <i>μ</i>m).</table>

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Figure 2: An Approach to Visualize the Deformation of the Intermediate Filament Cytoskeleton in Response to Locally Applied Forces 