How active mechanics and regulatory biochemistry combine to form patterns in development

P Gross, KV Kumar, SW Grill - Annual review of biophysics, 2017 - annualreviews.org
The development of organisms starting from their zygotic state involves a tight integration of
the myriad biochemical signaling interactions with the mechanical forces that eventually …

[HTML][HTML] Early evolution of symmetry and polarity in metazoan body plans

M Manuel - Comptes rendus biologies, 2009 - Elsevier
The early diverging metazoan lineages have highly disparate adult body plan geometries,
which can be characterised in terms of five major types of symmetry (asymmetrical …

A comprehensive model of the spatio-temporal stem cell and tissue organisation in the intestinal crypt

P Buske, J Galle, N Barker, G Aust… - PLoS computational …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
We introduce a novel dynamic model of stem cell and tissue organisation in murine
intestinal crypts. Integrating the molecular, cellular and tissue level of description, this model …

Brain cortical map** by simultaneous recording of functional near infrared spectroscopy and electroencephalograms from the whole brain during right median nerve …

M Takeuchi, E Hori, K Takamoto, AH Tran, K Satoru… - Brain topography, 2009 - Springer
To investigate relationships between hemodynamic responses and neural activities in the
somatosensory cortices, hemodynamic responses by near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and …

Motor imagery training with neurofeedback from the frontal pole facilitated sensorimotor cortical activity and improved hand dexterity

Y Ota, K Takamoto, S Urakawa, H Nishimaru… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
To develop a real-time neurofeedback system from the anterior prefrontal cortex (aPFC)
using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) for motor rehabilitation, we investigated …

Synthetic transitions: towards a new synthesis

R Sole - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The evolution of life in our biosphere has been marked by several major innovations. Such
major complexity shifts include the origin of cells, genetic codes or multicellularity to the …

A mechanochemical model for embryonic pattern formation: coupling tissue mechanics and morphogen expression

M Mercker, D Hartmann, A Marciniak-Czochra - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Motivated by recent experimental findings, we propose a novel mechanism of embryonic
pattern formation based on coupling of tissue curvature with diffusive signaling by a …

Cerebral functional imaging using near-infrared spectroscopy during repeated performances of motor rehabilitation tasks tested on healthy subjects

K Ishikuro, S Urakawa, K Takamoto… - Frontiers in Human …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
To investigate the relationship between the frontal and sensorimotor cortices and motor
learning, hemodynamic responses were recorded from the frontal and sensorimotor cortices …

[BOOK][B] Networks on networks: The physics of geobiology and geochemistry

AG Hunt, S Manzoni - 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
This book presents research into the physical rules that can underlie the behaviour of biota,
as well as the geochemistry of soil development. It addresses both nutrient and water …

A computational model for organism growth based on surface mesh generation

CH Leung, M Berzins - Journal of Computational Physics, 2003 - Elsevier
The generation of curvilinear coordinate meshes has been a powerful tool in computational
fluid dynamics calculation in the computational modelling of the fluid flows around complex …