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Stress, Mechanical

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    Jaslove J, Goodwin K, Sundarakrishnan A, Spurlin J, Mao S, Košmrlj A, Nelson C. Transmural pressure signals through retinoic acid to regulate lung branching. Development. 2022;149(2). PMCID: PMC8917413
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    Anlas A, Nelson C. Living under Strain: How Epithelia Protect Their Genomes from Repeated Stretching. Biochemistry. 2020;59(30):2761–2763. PMID: 32702973
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    Kinoshita N, Hashimoto Y, Yasue N, Suzuki M, Cristea I, Ueno N. Mechanical Stress Regulates Epithelial Tissue Integrity and Stiffness through the FGFR/Erk2 Signaling Pathway during Embryogenesis. Cell Rep. 2020;30(11):3875–3888.e3. PMID: 32187556
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    Fei C, Mao S, Yan J, Alert R, Stone H, Bassler B, Wingreen N, Košmrlj A. Nonuniform growth and surface friction determine bacterial biofilm morphology on soft substrates. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020;117(14):7622–7632. PMCID: PMC7148565
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    Yan J, Moreau A, Khodaparast S, Perazzo A, Feng J, Fei C, Mao S, Mukherjee S, Košmrlj A, Wingreen N, Bassler B, Stone H. Bacterial Biofilm Material Properties Enable Removal and Transfer by Capillary Peeling. Adv Mater. 2018;30(46):e1804153. PMCID: PMC8865467
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    Nelson C, Gleghorn J, Pang M-F, Jaslove J, Goodwin K, Varner V, Miller E, Radisky D, Stone H. Microfluidic chest cavities reveal that transmural pressure controls the rate of lung development. Development. 2017;144(23):4328–4335. PMCID: PMC5769635
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    Sabass B, Koch M, Liu G, Stone H, Shaevitz J. Force generation by groups of migrating bacteria. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017;114(28):7266–7271. PMCID: PMC5514709
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    Lembong J, Sabass B, Sun B, Rogers M, Stone H. Mechanics regulates ATP-stimulated collective calcium response in fibroblast cells. J R Soc Interface. 2015;12(108):20150140. PMCID: PMC4528580
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    Shin S, Ault J, Stone H. Flow-Driven Rapid Vesicle Fusion via Vortex Trapping. Langmuir. 2015;31(26):7178–82. PMID: 26098933
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    Doubrovinski K, Swan M, Polyakov O, Wieschaus E. Measurement of cortical elasticity in Drosophila melanogaster embryos using ferrofluids. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017;114(5):1051–1056. PMCID: PMC5293093
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    Piotrowski-Daspit A, Simi A, Pang M-F, Tien J, Nelson C. A 3D Culture Model to Study How Fluid Pressure and Flow Affect the Behavior of Aggregates of Epithelial Cells. Methods Mol Biol. 2017;1501:245–257. PMID: 27796957
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    Nelson C. From static to animated: Measuring mechanical forces in tissues. J Cell Biol. 2017;216(1):29–30. PMCID: PMC5223620
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    He B, Martin A, Wieschaus E. Flow-dependent myosin recruitment during Drosophila cellularization requires zygotic dunk activity. Development. 2016;143(13):2417–30. PMCID: PMC4958320
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    Varner V, Nelson C. Computational models of airway branching morphogenesis. Semin Cell Dev Biol. 2017;67:170–176. PMCID: PMC5136345
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    Nguyen T, Deshmukh N, Nagarah J, Kramer T, Purohit P, Berry M, McAlpine M. Piezoelectric nanoribbons for monitoring cellular deformations. Nat Nanotechnol. 2012;7(9):587–93. PMID: 22796742
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