Local cell interactions and self-amplifying individual cell ingression drive amniote gastrulation

eLife

Volumn 2014, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Voiculescu, Octavian ^a,d   Bodenstein, Lawrence ^b,c   Jun, I Lau ^a,e   Stern, Claudio D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNIOTE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL INTERACTION; CHICK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPORATION; EMBRYO; EPIFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GASTRULATION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CHICK EMBRYO; MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CHICK EMBRYO; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GASTRULATION; MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84901325252     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.01817     Document Type: Article

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