Fading Memory Formulation for Active Stress Fibre Contractility

Cytoskeletal alignment and morphological changes in cells under conditions of cyclic stretching have been reported in several in-vitro studies. Of particular interest is the experimental work of Wille et al. [1] in which the contractile response of fibroblast stress fibres was isolated and quantified by testing both untreated cells and cells treated with Cytochalasin-D.