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- Apical stress fibers enable a scaling between cell mechanical response and area in epithelial tissue
Apical stress fibers enable a scaling between cell mechanical response and area in epithelial tissue
Authors
Jesús M. López-Gay, Hayden Nunley, Meryl Spencer, Florencia di Pietro, Boris Guirao, Floris Bosveld, Olga Markova, Isabelle Gaugue, Stéphane Pelletier, David K. Lubensky, Yohanns Bellaïche
Abstract
Biological systems tailor their properties and behavior to their size
throughout development and in numerous aspects of physiology. However, such
size scaling remains poorly understood as it applies to cell mechanics and
mechanosensing. By examining how the