| Literature DB >> 30562509 |
Gordana Scepanovic1, Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalez2.
Abstract
Cells are thought to divide along their longest axis. Now, two studies in Developmental Cell (Scarpa et al., 2018) and EMBO Journal (Finegan et al., 2018) reveal that in many instances, cell division orientation in vivo is not determined by cell shape, but rather by local anisotropies in cell mechanics.Mesh:
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Year: 2018 PMID: 30562509 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2018.11.040
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Dev Cell ISSN: 1534-5807 Impact factor: 12.270