Time to make the doughnuts: Building and shaping seamless tubes

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 67, Issue , 2017, Pages 123-131

  Sundaram, Meera V ^a   Cohen, Jennifer D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillary; Excretory system; Seamless tube; Trachea

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DROSOPHILA; HUMAN; MODEL; NERVE CELL; PREVALENCE; TRACHEA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAPILLARY; CELL POLARITY; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXOCYTOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; PATHOLOGY; PINOCYTOSIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VASCULAR DISEASE;

CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAPILLARIES; CELL POLARITY; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EXOCYTOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; PINOCYTOSIS; TRACHEA; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 84969506272     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: 10963634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2016.05.006     Document Type: Review

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