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Hydrostatic pressure and lateral actomyosin tension control stretch and tension of the basement membrane in epithelia
K. Y. Guerra Santillan, C. Dahmann, E. Fischer-Friedrich
The paper measures basal tension in Drosophila wing disc epithelium and finds it depends on actomyosin and basement membrane, proportional to hydrostatic pressure and lateral tension.
DOI 10.1101/2022.09.02.506324