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Mechanisms of morphogenesis /

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Main Author: Davies, Jamie A. (Author)
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; San Diego, CA : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2023]
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Morphogenesis.
Morphogenèse.
Morphogenesis
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • <P><b>Section I: Introduction </b>1. General introduction
  • the aims and structure of this book. 2. Key principles of morphogenesis 3. The power and limitations of self-assembly</p> <p><b>Section II: Cell shape and the cell morphogenesis </b>4. Morphogenesis of individual cells 5. Animal cell shape: the importance of the cytoskeleton 6. Cellular morphogenesis in plants</p> <p><b>Section III: Cell Migration </b>7. Cell migration in development: a brief overview 8. The nanomachinery of locomotion 9. Guidance by chemotaxis 10. Guidance by galvanotaxis 11. Guidance by contact 12. Waypoint navigation in the embryo 13. Cooperative migration of mesenchymal cells 14. Condensation of cells</p> <p><b>Section IV: Epithelial Morphogenesis </b>15. The epithelial state: a brief overview 16. Neighbour exchange and convergent extension 17. Closure of holes 18. Invagination and evagination 19. Epithelial fusion 20. Epithelial branching 21. Boundaries to epithelial movement</p> <p><b>Section V: Morphogenesis by cell proliferation and death </b>22. Growth, proliferation and death: a brief overview 23. Morphogenesis by orientated cell division 24. Morphogenesis by elective cell death</p> <p><b>Section VI: Morphogenesis in context </b>25. From mechanisms to morphology: a brief overview 26. Morphogenesis in embryos: some illustrative examples 27. Morphogenesis in organoids, embryoids and engineered tissues 28. Pathological morphogenesis</p> <p><b>Section VII: Modelling morphogenesis </b>29. Modelling morphogenesis: a brief overview 30. Mechanical and mathematical models of morphogenesis 31. Modelling using living cells
  • tissue engineering and synthetic morphology</p> <p><b>Section VIII: Conclusion and perspectives </b>32. Conclusion and perspectives</p>