Table of contents : CONTENTS......Page 8 PREFACE......Page 6 I. CELL MECHANICS......Page 10 Heterogeneous expression of the motor protein prestin of cochlear outer hair cells......Page 12 Effects of actin filaments on anisotropy and stiffness of aortic smooth muscle cells......Page 25 Micro-vessel network formation of endothelial cells with in vitro three dimensional model......Page 35 Time-dependent mechanical behaviors of articular cartilage and chondrocytes under constant total compressive deformation......Page 46 II. CELL RESPONSE TO MECHANICAL STIMULATION......Page 58 Threshold fiber strain that induces reorganization of cytoskeletal actin structure in osteoblastic cells......Page 60 Morphology of endothelical cells in response to hydrostatic pressure......Page 71 Mechanosensing in intestinal villi: ATP signaling in subepithelial fibroblasts network......Page 81 III. TISSUE ENGINEERING......Page 94 Microelements for cartilage tissue engineering......Page 96 Interrelationship between water filtration velocity and the thickness of pseudointima formed at the wall of artificial vascular grafts implanted in the dog common carotid artery......Page 105 Strengthening of fibrous tissues under mechanical stimuli......Page 117 IV. COMPUTATIONAL BIOMECHANICS......Page 128 Assessment of cortical bone microstructure using monochromatic synchrotron radiation micro-CT......Page 130 Study on particle presentations of blood cells and the plasma in microvascular blood flow......Page 141 Brief reviews of mechanical models of skeletal muscle and formulation of a muscle model taking into account microstructure and damage......Page 150 Numerical simulation of the effects of actin binding and cellular deformation on the orientation of actin stress fibers under cyclic stretch......Page 158 SUBJECT INDEX......Page 170