Morphogenetic mechanisms of epithelial tubulogenesis: MDCK cell polarity is transiently rearranged without loss of cell-cell contact during scatter factor/hepatocyte growth factor-induced tubulogenesis

Developmental Biology

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 64-79

  Pollack, Anne L ^a,b   Runyan, Raymond B ^b   Mostov, Keith E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cell adhesion; Epithelial polarity; Kidney; Morphogenesis; Tubulogenesis

Indexed keywords

DESMOPLAKIN; SCATTER FACTOR; UVOMORULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL POLARITY; EMBRYO; EPITHELIUM CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; KIDNEY TUBULE EPITHELIUM; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIGHT JUNCTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032387652     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1998.9091     Document Type: Article

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