Developmental BiologySciencePeer-reviewed
Immotile cilia of the mouse node sense a fluid flow-induced mechanical force for left-right symmetry breaking
Takanobu A. Katoh, Toshihiro Omori, Katsutoshi Mizuno…·Hiroshi Hamada
The paper shows that immotile cilia in mouse node cells detect mechanical forces from leftward fluid flow, leading to asymmetric molecular responses that break left-right symmetry.
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