Mechanical control of tissue and organ development

Development

Volumn 137, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1407-1420

  Mammoto, Tadanori ^a   Ingber, Donald E ^a,b,c  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Mechanical signaling; Morphogenesis; Pattern formation; Tension

Indexed keywords

BIOENGINEERING; CELL POLARITY; CELL SELECTION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; INVAGINATION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; ORGANOGENESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 77951228475     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.024166     Document Type: Review

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