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Robert A. Freitas Jr., Nanomedicine, Volume IIA: Biocompatibility, Landes Bioscience, Georgetown, TX, 2003

15.5.7 Cytomembrane and Intracellular Mechanocompatibility

When penetrating and entering the living cell, nanorobot physical structures and activities must be mechanically compatible with the cellular glycocalyx (Section 15.5.7.1), the plasma and organelle membranes (Section 15.5.7.2), and all cytoskeletal systems (Section 15.5.7.3). Nanorobots must avoid causing intracellular cavitation, shock wave damage, or decompression nucleation (Section 15.5.7.4), disrupting intracellular microzones (Section 15.5.7.5), mechanically inducing intracellular proteolysis or apoptosis (Section 15.5.7.6), or mechanically disrupting chromosomes in the cell nucleus (Section 8.5.4.7).

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