Rapid patterning of Dictyostelium discoideum cells under confined geometry and its relation to differentiation

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 113-120

  Sawada, Yasuji ^a   Maeda, Yoshiki ^a   Takeuchi, Ikuo ^b   Williams, Jeffrey ^c   Maeda, Yasuo ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b National Institutes of Natural Sciences   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

2D cell mass; Cell differentiation; Dictyostelium; Oxygen; Proportion regulation; Rapid patterning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GEOMETRY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EUKARYOTA; GASTROPODA;

EID: 0031891130     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.1998.t01-2-00013.x     Document Type: Article

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