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Chaos begets order: asynchronous cell contractions drive epithelial morphogenesis.
Ewa Paluch, Carl-Philipp Heisenberg
Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.
Developmental cell 2009 JanSizes of these terms reflect their relevance to your search.
Apical cell contraction triggers tissue folding and invagination in epithelia. During Drosophila gastrulation, ventral furrow formation was thought to be driven by smooth, purse-string-like constriction of an acto-myosin belt underlying adherens junctions. Now Martin et al. report in Nature that ventral furrow formation is triggered by asynchronous pulsed contractions of the apical acto-myosin cortex in individual cells.
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Ewa Paluch, Carl-Philipp Heisenberg. Chaos begets order: asynchronous cell contractions drive epithelial morphogenesis. Developmental cell. 2009 Jan;16(1):4-6
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