Developmental BiologyiSciencePeer-reviewed
Cell density couples tissue mechanics to control the elongation speed of the body axis
Changqing Lu, Joana M. N. Vidigueira, Christopher Chan…·Fengzhu Xiong
The paper shows that cell density in the posterior presomitic mesoderm modulates body axis elongation speed through a negative feedback loop, coupling tissue mechanics and FGF activity.
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