Tissue stiffening coordinates morphogenesis by triggering collective cell migration in vivo

From morphogen to morphogenesis and back

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Emergent cellular self-organization and mechanosensation initiate follicle pattern in the avian skin

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The soft mechanical signature of glial scars in the central nervous system

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EMT: 2016

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The front and rear of collective cell migration

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Collective cell durotaxis emerges from long-range intercellular force transmission

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How Tissue Mechanical Properties Affect Enteric Neural Crest Cell Migration

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CNS Cell Distribution and Axon Orientation Determine Local Spinal Cord Mechanical Properties

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Forces of Change: Mechanics Underlying Formation of Functional 3D Organ Buds

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Matrix stiffness drives epithelial–mesenchymal transition and tumour metastasis through a TWIST1–G3BP2 mechanotransduction pathway

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Systematic profiling of spatiotemporal tissue and cellular stiffness in the developing brain

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FAK is required for tension-dependent organization of collective cell movements in Xenopus mesendoderm

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Compression stiffening of brain and its effect on mechanosensing by glioma cells

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PCP and Septins Compartmentalize Cortical Actomyosin to Direct Collective Cell Movement

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Generation of organized germ layers from a single mouse embryonic stem cell

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Mechanical guidance of cell migration: lessons from chemotaxis

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The hypoxia factor Hif-1α controls neural crest chemotaxis and epithelial to mesenchymal transition

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Cell movements of the deep layer of non-neural ectoderm underlie complete neural tube closure in Xenopus

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What is bad in cancer is good in the embryo: Importance of EMT in neural crest development

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A Mechanoresponsive Cadherin-Keratin Complex Directs Polarized Protrusive Behavior and Collective Cell Migration

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Assembling Neural Crest Regulatory Circuits into a Gene Regulatory Network

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Collective Chemotaxis Requires Contact-Dependent Cell Polarity

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Rho-regulated Myosin phosphatase establishes the level of protrusive activity required for cell movements during zebrafish gastrulation

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Actomyosin stiffens the vertebrate embryo during crucial stages of elongation and neural tube closure

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Cadherin Adhesion, Tissue Tension, and Noncanonical Wnt Signaling Regulate Fibronectin Matrix Organization

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