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SUBMITTER: Gault WJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4274268 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gault William J WJ Enyedi Balázs B Niethammer Philipp P
The Journal of cell biology 20141201 6
Osmotic cues from the environment mediate rapid detection of epithelial breaches by leukocytes in larval zebrafish tail fins. Using intravital luminescence and fluorescence microscopy, we now show that osmolarity differences between the interstitial fluid and the external environment trigger ATP release at tail fin wounds to initiate rapid wound closure through long-range activation of basal epithelial cell motility. Extracellular nucleotide breakdown, at least in part mediated by ecto-nucleosid ...[more]