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Morphogenesis: Shaping Tissues through Extracellular Force Gradients.

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Jayadev, R; Sherwood, DR
Published in: Current biology : CB
September 2017

Organ sculpting requires directed physical force generation. Force imbalances are primarily thought to arise from within cells. A new study, however, demonstrates that an extracellular-matrix-based stiffness gradient in the Drosophila egg chamber instructs tissue elongation.

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Current biology : CB

DOI

EISSN

1879-0445

ISSN

0960-9822

Publication Date

September 2017

Volume

27

Issue

17

Start / End Page

R850 / R852

Related Subject Headings

  • Morphogenesis
  • Extracellular Matrix
  • Drosophila Proteins
  • Drosophila
  • Developmental Biology
  • Basement Membrane
  • Animals
  • 52 Psychology
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
  • 31 Biological sciences
 

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Jayadev, R., & Sherwood, D. R. (2017). Morphogenesis: Shaping Tissues through Extracellular Force Gradients. Current Biology : CB, 27(17), R850–R852. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.07.040
Jayadev, Ranjay, and David R. Sherwood. “Morphogenesis: Shaping Tissues through Extracellular Force Gradients.Current Biology : CB 27, no. 17 (September 2017): R850–52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.07.040.
Jayadev R, Sherwood DR. Morphogenesis: Shaping Tissues through Extracellular Force Gradients. Current biology : CB. 2017 Sep;27(17):R850–2.
Jayadev, Ranjay, and David R. Sherwood. “Morphogenesis: Shaping Tissues through Extracellular Force Gradients.Current Biology : CB, vol. 27, no. 17, Sept. 2017, pp. R850–52. Epmc, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.07.040.
Jayadev R, Sherwood DR. Morphogenesis: Shaping Tissues through Extracellular Force Gradients. Current biology : CB. 2017 Sep;27(17):R850–R852.
Journal cover image

Published In

Current biology : CB

DOI

EISSN

1879-0445

ISSN

0960-9822

Publication Date

September 2017

Volume

27

Issue

17

Start / End Page

R850 / R852

Related Subject Headings

  • Morphogenesis
  • Extracellular Matrix
  • Drosophila Proteins
  • Drosophila
  • Developmental Biology
  • Basement Membrane
  • Animals
  • 52 Psychology
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
  • 31 Biological sciences