Kimberly M Stroka

Estradiol (E2), a sex steroid hormone molecule, plays a key role in regulating the actin and shape dynamics of cells in a multitude of normal and pathophysiological conditions. While cytoskeletal rearrangements, membrane dynamics, and cellu…

Fibrosis is a common pathological feature of inflammatory conditions across various organ systems, leading to a marked increase in matrix stiffness. The effects of substrate stiffness on benign epithelial cells in fibrotic microenvironments…

Dysregulated cell migration and invasion are hallmarks of many disease states. This dysregulated migratory behavior is influenced by the changes in expression of aquaporins (AQPs) that occur during pathogenesis, including conditions such as…

Aquaporins (AQPs), transmembrane water-conducting channels, have earned a great deal of scrutiny for their critical physiological roles in healthy and disease cell states, especially in the biomedical field. Numerous methods have been imple…