Mechanics of neurulation: From classical to current perspectives on the physical mechanics that shape, fold, and form the neural tube

EpiTools: An Open-Source Image Analysis Toolkit for Quantifying Epithelial Growth Dynamics

(2016) Davide Heller et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Regulation of cell protrusions by small GTPases during fusion of the neural folds

(2016) Ana Rolo et al.   eLife

TissueMiner: A multiscale analysis toolkit to quantify how cellular processes create tissue dynamics

(2016) Raphaël Etournay et al.   eLife

Wide and high resolution tension measurement using FRET in embryo

(2016) Satoshi Yamashita et al.   Scientific Reports

From Discrete to Continuum Models of Three-Dimensional Deformations in Epithelial Sheets

(2015) Nebojsa Murisic et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Mechanical Strain Determines the Axis of Planar Polarity in Ciliated Epithelia

(2015) Yuan-Hung Chien et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Morphogenesis of the mouse neural plate depends on distinct roles of cofilin 1 in apical and basal epithelial domains

(2015) J. Grego-Bessa et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Force production and mechanical accommodation during convergent extension

(2015) J. Zhou et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Tissue mechanics and adhesion during embryo development

(2015) Joseph H. Shawky et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Cellular basis of neuroepithelial bending during mouse spinal neural tube closure

(2015) Suzanne G. McShane et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Sequential Contraction and Exchange of Apical Junctions Drives Zippering and Neural Tube Closure in a Simple Chordate

(2015) Hidehiko Hashimoto et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Coordinating cell and tissue behavior during zebrafish neural tube morphogenesis

(2015) Claudio Araya et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

Tissue patterning and cellular mechanics

(2015) Evan Heller et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Rho-kinase-dependent actin turnover and actomyosin disassembly are necessary for mouse spinal neural tube closure

(2015) Sarah Escuin et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Anisotropic stress orients remodelling of mammalian limb bud ectoderm

(2015) Kimberly Lau et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Cell-Autonomous Ca 2+ Flashes Elicit Pulsed Contractions of an Apical Actin Network to Drive Apical Constriction during Neural Tube Closure

(2015) Neophytos Christodoulou et al.   Cell Reports

Interplay of cell dynamics and epithelial tension during morphogenesis of the Drosophila pupal wing

(2015) Raphaël Etournay et al.   eLife

Shroom3 functions downstream of planar cell polarity to regulate myosin II distribution and cellular organization during neural tube closure

(2015) E. M. McGreevy et al.   Biology Open

Vertex Models of Epithelial Morphogenesis

(2014) Alexander G. Fletcher et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Automated multidimensional image analysis reveals a role for Abl in embryonic wound repair

(2014) Teresa Zulueta-Coarasa et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Distinct Apical and Basolateral Mechanisms Drive Planar Cell Polarity-Dependent Convergent Extension of the Mouse Neural Plate

(2014) Margot Williams et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

GEF-H1 functions in apical constriction and cell intercalations and is essential for vertebrate neural tube closure

(2014) K. Itoh et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Forces in Tissue Morphogenesis and Patterning

(2013) Carl-Philipp Heisenberg et al.   CELL

Cytosystems dynamics in self-organization of tissue architecture

(2013) Yoshiki Sasai   NATURE

Tension-oriented cell divisions limit anisotropic tissue tension in epithelial spreading during zebrafish epiboly

(2013) Pedro Campinho et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

The interplay between cell signalling and mechanics in developmental processes

(2013) Callie Johnson Miller et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

The Continuing Challenge of Understanding, Preventing, and Treating Neural Tube Defects

(2013) J. B. Wallingford et al.   SCIENCE

Bone morphogenetic proteins regulate hinge point formation during neural tube closure by dynamic modulation of apicobasal polarity

(2012) Dae Seok Eom et al.   BIRTH DEFECTS RESEARCH PART A-CLINICAL AND MOLECULAR TERATOLOGY

Planar Cell Polarity Links Axes of Spatial Dynamics in Neural-Tube Closure

(2012) Tamako Nishimura et al.   CELL

Enabling user-guided segmentation and tracking of surface-labeled cells in time-lapse image sets of living tissues

(2012) David N. Mashburn et al.   CYTOMETRY PART A

In toto live imaging of mouse morphogenesis and new insights into neural tube closure

(2012) R. Massarwa et al.   DEVELOPMENT

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

(2012) H. Morita et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Molecular mechanisms of cell shape changes that contribute to vertebrate neural tube closure

(2012) Makoto Suzuki et al.   DEVELOPMENT GROWTH & DIFFERENTIATION

Neurulation: coordinating cell polarisation and lumen formation

(2012) Julien Compagnon et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Biological imaging software tools

(2012) Kevin W Eliceiri et al.   NATURE METHODS

NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

(2012) Caroline A Schneider et al.   NATURE METHODS

Neural tube defects-disorders of neurulation and related embryonic processes

(2012) Andrew J. Copp et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Developmental Biology

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

(2011) Gregory F. Weber et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

On the growth and form of the gut

(2011) Thierry Savin et al.   NATURE

Epithelial machines that shape the embryo

(2011) Lance A. Davidson   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Cell Flow Reorients the Axis of Planar Polarity in the Wing Epithelium of Drosophila

(2010) Benoît Aigouy et al.   CELL

MID1 and MID2 are required for Xenopus neural tube closure through the regulation of microtubule organization

(2010) M. Suzuki et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Macroscopic stiffening of embryonic tissues via microtubules, RhoGEF and the assembly of contractile bundles of actomyosin

(2010) J. Zhou et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Dynamic imaging of mammalian neural tube closure

(2010) Christina Pyrgaki et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Surprisingly Simple Mechanical Behavior of a Complex Embryonic Tissue

(2010) Michelangelo von Dassow et al.   PLoS One

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

(2009) J. Zhou et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Apical constriction: A cell shape change that can drive morphogenesis

(2009) Jacob M. Sawyer et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Emergent morphogenesis: Elastic mechanics of a self-deforming tissue

(2009) Lance A. Davidson et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Cell shape changes indicate a role for extrinsic tensile forces in Drosophila germ-band extension

(2009) Lucy C. Butler et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Tissue tectonics: morphogenetic strain rates, cell shape change and intercalation

(2009) Guy B Blanchard et al.   NATURE METHODS

Morphogenetic movements driving neural tube closure in Xenopus require myosin IIB

(2008) Ana Rolo et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Apical Accumulation of Rho in the Neural Plate Is Important for Neural Plate Cell Shape Change and Neural Tube Formation

(2008) Nagatoki Kinoshita et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Enabled (Xena) regulates neural plate morphogenesis, apical constriction, and cellular adhesion required for neural tube closure in Xenopus

(2007) Julaine Roffers-Agarwal et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY