Mechanical state transitions in the regulation of tissue form and function

Y Mao, SA Wickström - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2024 - nature.com
From embryonic development, postnatal growth and adult homeostasis to reparative and
disease states, cells and tissues undergo constant changes in genome activity, cell fate …

Parsing patterns: Emerging roles of tissue self-organization in health and disease

R Ramos, B Swedlund, AK Ganesan, L Morsut… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Patterned morphologies, such as segments, spirals, stripes, and spots, frequently emerge
during embryogenesis through self-organized coordination between cells. Yet, complex …

Inference and analysis of cell-cell communication using CellChat

S **, CF Guerrero-Juarez, L Zhang, I Chang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding global communications among cells requires accurate representation of cell-
cell signaling links and effective systems-level analyses of those links. We construct a …

[HTML][HTML] The developmental basis of fingerprint pattern formation and variation

JD Glover, ZR Sudderick, BBJ Shih, C Batho-Samblas… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Fingerprints are complex and individually unique patterns in the skin. Established prenatally,
the molecular and cellular mechanisms that guide fingerprint ridge formation and their …

Tracing the origin of hair follicle stem cells

R Morita, N Sanzen, H Sasaki, T Hayashi, M Umeda… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Tissue stem cells are generated from a population of embryonic progenitors through organ-
specific morphogenetic events,. Although tissue stem cells are central to organ homeostasis …

An updated classification of hair follicle morphogenesis

N Saxena, KW Mok, M Rendl - Experimental dermatology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Hair follicle (HF) formation in develo** embryonic skin requires stepwise signalling
between the epithelial epidermis and mesenchymal dermis, and their specialized …

New developments in the biology of fibroblast growth factors

DM Ornitz, N Itoh - WIREs mechanisms of disease, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The fibroblast growth factor (FGF) family is composed of 18 secreted signaling proteins
consisting of canonical FGFs and endocrine FGFs that activate four receptor tyrosine …

Self-organization in pattern formation

F Schweisguth, F Corson - Developmental cell, 2019 - cell.com
Self-organization is pervasive in development, from symmetry breaking in the early embryo
to tissue patterning and morphogenesis. For a few model systems, the underlying molecular …

Mathematical models for chemotaxis and their applications in self-organisation phenomena

KJ Painter - Journal of theoretical biology, 2019 - Elsevier
Chemotaxis is a fundamental guidance mechanism of cells and organisms, responsible for
attracting microbes to food, embryonic cells into develo** tissues, immune cells to …

Modern perspectives on near-equilibrium analysis of Turing systems

AL Krause, EA Gaffney… - … Transactions of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In the nearly seven decades since the publication of Alan Turing's work on morphogenesis,
enormous progress has been made in understanding both the mathematical and biological …