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Emergent patterns of collective cell migration under tubular confinement

Wang Xi; Surabhi Sonam; Thuan Beng Saw; Benoît Ladoux; Chwee Teck Lim · 2017 · Nature Communications

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Abstract

Collective epithelial behaviors are essential for the development of lumens in organs. However, conventional assays of planar systems fail to replicate cell cohorts of tubular structures that advance in concerted ways on out-of-plane curved and confined surfaces, such as ductal elongation in vivo. Here, we mimic such coordinated tissue migration by forming lumens of epithelial cell sheets inside microtubes of 1-10 cell lengths in diameter. We show that these cell tubes reproduce the physiological apical-basal polarity, and have actin alignment, cell orientation, tissue organization, and migrat

Abstract by Wang Xi; Surabhi Sonam; Thuan Beng Saw; Benoît Ladoux; Chwee Teck Lim, Nature Communications (2017) — licensed CC BY 4.0.

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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1038/s41467-017-01390-x