Variation and robustness of the mechanics of gastrulation: The role of tissue mechanical properties during morphogenesis

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 253-269

  Von Dassow, Michelangelo ^a   Davidson, Lance A ^b  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b 5059 BST3 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular mechanics; Developmental biomechanics; Gastrulation; Morphogenesis; Phenotypic variation

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ARCHENTERON; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MOTION; ECHINODERM; ECTODERM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONAL TISSUE; ENDODERM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GASTRULA; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; MICROENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIGIDITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURFACE TENSION; VISCOELASTICITY;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; BIOMECHANICS; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; ELASTICITY; FEEDBACK; GASTRULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; SEA URCHINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, MECHANICAL; VISCOSITY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ECHINODERMATA;

EID: 38749101616     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.20108     Document Type: Review

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