Fluid dynamic mechanism responsible for breaking the left-right symmetry of the human body: The nodal flow

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 41, Issue , 2009, Pages 53-72

  Hirokawa, Nobutaka ^a   Okada, Yasushi ^a   Tanaka, Yosuke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body axis determination; Cilia; Kinesin; Morphogen; Morphogenesis; Nodal vesicular parcel

Indexed keywords

BODY-AXIS DETERMINATION; CILIA; KINESIN; MORPHOGEN; MORPHOGENESIS; NODAL VESICULAR PARCEL;

CELL MEMBRANES; ELECTRIC REACTORS; FLUID DYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGY; SIGNALING;

SANITARY SEWERS;

ANATOMY; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; SIGNALING; SYMMETRY;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 67651055729     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fluid.010908.165141     Document Type: Review

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