Search Results - "Ladoux, Benoit"
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Cell migration guided by long-lived spatial memory
Published in Nature communications (05-07-2021)“…Living cells actively migrate in their environment to perform key biological functions—from unicellular organisms looking for food to single cells such as…”
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Cell response to substrate rigidity is regulated by active and passive cytoskeletal stress
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (09-06-2020)“…Morphogenesis, tumor formation, and wound healing are regulated by tissue rigidity. Focal adhesion behavior is locally regulated by stiffness; however, how…”
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Sustained Oscillations of Epithelial Cell Sheets
Published in Biophysical journal (06-08-2019)“…Morphological changes during development, tissue repair, and disease largely rely on coordinated cell movements and are controlled by the tissue environment…”
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Active nematics across scales from cytoskeleton organization to tissue morphogenesis
Published in Current opinion in genetics & development (01-04-2022)“…Biological tissues are composed of various cell types working cooperatively to perform their respective function within organs and the whole body. During…”
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Mechanics of epithelial tissues during gap closure
Published in Current opinion in cell biology (01-10-2016)“…The closure of gaps is crucial to maintaining epithelium integrity during developmental and repair processes such as dorsal closure and wound healing…”
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Front–Rear Polarization by Mechanical Cues: From Single Cells to Tissues
Published in Trends in cell biology (01-06-2016)“…Directed cell migration is a complex process that involves front–rear polarization, characterized by cell adhesion and cytoskeleton-based protrusion,…”
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Evidence of a large-scale mechanosensing mechanism for cellular adaptation to substrate stiffness
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (01-05-2012)“…Cell migration plays a major role in many fundamental biological processes, such as morphogenesis, tumor metastasis, and wound healing. As they anchor and pull…”
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Topological defects in epithelia govern cell death and extrusion
Published in Nature (London) (13-04-2017)“…By modelling epithelial cells as active nematic liquid crystals, stresses induced at the sites of topological defects are found to be the primary drivers of…”
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Desmosomal Junctions Govern Tissue Integrity and Actomyosin Contractility in Apoptotic Cell Extrusion
Published in Current biology (24-02-2020)“…During apoptosis, or programmed cell death, a dead cell could be expelled from the tissue by coordinated processes between the dying cell and its neighbors…”
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Biological Tissues as Active Nematic Liquid Crystals
Published in Advanced materials (Weinheim) (01-11-2018)“…Live tissues can self‐organize and be described as active materials composed of cells that generate active stresses through continuous injection of energy. In…”
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Adaptive rheology and ordering of cell cytoskeleton govern matrix rigidity sensing
Published in Nature communications (25-06-2015)“…Matrix rigidity sensing regulates a large variety of cellular processes and has important implications for tissue development and disease. However, how cells…”
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Rigidity-driven growth and migration of epithelial cells on microstructured anisotropic substrates
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (15-05-2007)“…The physical properties of the cellular environment are involved in regulating the formation and maintenance of tissues. In particular, substrate rigidity…”
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Coordination between Intra- and Extracellular Forces Regulates Focal Adhesion Dynamics
Published in Nano letters (11-01-2017)“…Focal adhesions (FAs) are important mediators of cell–substrate interactions. One of their key functions is the transmission of forces between the…”
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Myosin II isoforms play distinct roles in adherens junction biogenesis
Published in eLife (05-09-2019)“…Adherens junction (AJ) assembly under force is essential for many biological processes like epithelial monolayer bending, collective cell migration, cell…”
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Mechanical plasticity in collective cell migration
Published in Current opinion in cell biology (01-10-2021)“…Collective cell migration is crucial to maintain epithelium integrity during developmental and repair processes. It requires a tight regulation of mechanical…”
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Emergent patterns of collective cell migration under tubular confinement
Published in Nature communications (15-11-2017)“…Collective epithelial behaviors are essential for the development of lumens in organs. However, conventional assays of planar systems fail to replicate cell…”
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Cell crawling mediates collective cell migration to close undamaged epithelial gaps
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (03-07-2012)“…Fundamental biological processes such as morphogenesis and wound healing involve the closure of epithelial gaps. Epithelial gap closure is commonly attributed…”
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Active superelasticity in three-dimensional epithelia of controlled shape
Published in Nature (London) (01-11-2018)“…Fundamental biological processes are carried out by curved epithelial sheets that enclose a pressurized lumen. How these sheets develop and withstand…”
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Mechanical forces in cell monolayers
Published in Journal of cell science (20-12-2018)“…In various physiological processes, the cell collective is organized in a monolayer, such as seen in a simple epithelium. The advances in the understanding of…”
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Is the Mechanical Activity of Epithelial Cells Controlled by Deformations or Forces?
Published in Biophysical journal (01-12-2005)“…The traction forces developed by cells depend strongly on the substrate rigidity. In this letter, we characterize quantitatively this effect on MDCK epithelial…”
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