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SUBMITTER: Wimmer R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3268451 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Developmental cell 20111229 1
Sprouting angiogenesis, crucial for the development of new blood vessels, is a prime example of collective migration in which endothelial cells migrate as a group joined via cadherin-containing adherens junctions (AJ). The actomyosin apparatus is connected to AJ and generates contractile forces, which, depending on their strength and duration, increase or decrease cell cohesion. Thus, appropriate spatiotemporal control of junctional myosin is critical, but the mechanisms underlying it are incomp ...[more]