Collective cell migration drives morphogenesis of the kidney nephron.

Tissue organization in epithelial organs is achieved during development by the combined processes of cell differentiation and morphogenetic cell movements. In the kidney, the nephron is the functional organ unit. Each nephron is an epithelial tubule that is subdivided into discrete segments with spe...

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Main Authors: Aleksandr Vasilyev, Yan Liu, Sudha Mudumana, Steve Mangos, Pui-Ying Lam, Arindam Majumdar, Jinhua Zhao, Kar-Lai Poon, Igor Kondrychyn, Vladimir Korzh, Iain A Drummond
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1000009&type=printable
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