An interplay of geometry and signaling enables robust lung branching morphogenesis

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 141, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 4526-4536

  Menshykau, Denis ^a,b   Blanc, Pierre ^c   Unal, Erkan ^a,b,d   Sapin, Vincent ^c   Iber, Dagmar ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^c R2D2 Retinoids Reproduction Developmental Diseases   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Branching morphogenesis; Computational biology; Image based modeling; Turing pattern

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 10; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; FGF10 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SHH PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRANCHING MORPHOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FETUS LUNG; GEOMETRY; GROWTH REGULATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LUNG MODEL; MESENCHYME; MOUSE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EMBRYOLOGY; LUNG; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME LAPSE IMAGING;

ANIMALS; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 10; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; LUNG; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING;

EID: 84911486861     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.116202     Document Type: Article

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