Endogenous patterns of mechanical stress are required for branching morphogenesis
- 17 August 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Integrative Biology
- Vol. 2 (9) , 424-434
Abstract
Here we show that the pattern of epithelial branching morphogenesis is regulated by gradients of endogenous mechanical stress.Keywords
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