Wound healing: The power of the purse string.

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1. Department of Cell Biology, University Program in Genetics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA.
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Kiehart DP¹
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Current Biology : CB, 01 Aug 1999, 9(16):R602-5
https://doi.org/10.1016/s0960-9822(99)80384-4 PMID: 10469588

Abstract

Recently, Xenopus oocytes have been shown to repair wounds using a contractile system composed of actin and myosin-II. The work underscores the importance of actin-based myosin-II contractility in cellular and supracellular 'purse strings' that function in diverse biological processes.

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An actin-mediated two-step mechanism is required for ventral enclosure of the C. elegans hypodermis.

Drosophila nonmuscle myosin II has multiple essential roles in imaginal disc and egg chamber morphogenesis.

Reversible blockade of gap junctional communication by 2,3-butanedione monoxime in rat cardiac myocytes

Mechanical properties of the dividing sea urchin egg

Disruptions of muscle fiber plasma membranes. Role in exercise-induced damage

Title not supplied

Forces for dorsal closure in Drosophila are both parallel and perpendicular to the morphogenic movements that cause the lateral epidermis to spread over the amnioserosa

A contractile activity that closes phagosomes in macrophages.

Dynamic changes in the distribution of cytoplasmic myosin during Drosophila embryogenesis.

GFP-moesin illuminates actin cytoskeleton dynamics in living tissue and demonstrates cell shape changes during morphogenesis in Drosophila.

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Wound Repair of the Cell Membrane: Lessons from Dictyostelium Cells.

Mechanical and Immunological Regulation in Wound Healing and Skin Reconstruction.

Electrical stimulation of developmental forces reveals the mechanism of limb formation in vertebrate embryos.

Cytoskeletal tension and Bazooka tune interface geometry to ensure fusion fidelity and sheet integrity during dorsal closure.

The tension biology of wound healing.

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Reversible blockade of gap junctional communication by 2,3-butanedione monoxime in rat cardiac myocytes

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Forces for dorsal closure in Drosophila are both parallel and perpendicular to the morphogenic movements that cause the lateral epidermis to spread over the amnioserosa

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