Stretched divisions

Carl-Philipp Heisenberg ()
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Carl-Philipp Heisenberg: Carl-Philipp Heisenberg is at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg 3400, Austria.

Nature, 2017, vol. 543, issue 7643, 43-44

Abstract: Many organ surfaces are covered by a protective epithelial-cell layer. It emerges that such layers are maintained by cell stretching that triggers cell division mediated by the force-sensitive ion-channel protein Piezo1. See Letter p.118

Date: 2017
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