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SUBMITTER: Ideses Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6018151 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ideses Y Y Erukhimovitch V V Brand R R Jourdain D D Hernandez J Salmeron JS Gabinet U R UR Safran S A SA Kruse K K Bernheim-Groswasser A A
Nature communications 20180625 1
Shape transitions in developing organisms can be driven by active stresses, notably, active contractility generated by myosin motors. The mechanisms generating tissue folding are typically studied in epithelia. There, the interaction between cells is also coupled to an elastic substrate, presenting a major difficulty for studying contraction induced folding. Here we study the contraction and buckling of active, initially homogeneous, thin elastic actomyosin networks isolated from bounding surfac ...[more]