THE EFFECT OF MECHANICAL TENSION UPON THE POLARITY OF GROWING FIBROBLASTS

Bunting , C. H.; Eades , Charles C.

doi:10.1084/jem.44.2.147

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THE EFFECT OF MECHANICAL TENSION UPON THE POLARITY OF GROWING FIBROBLASTS

C. H. Bunting,

C. H. Bunting

From the Pathological Laboratory of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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Charles C. Eades

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C. H. Bunting

From the Pathological Laboratory of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Charles C. Eades

From the Pathological Laboratory of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Received: April 22 1926

Online ISSN: 1540-9538

Print ISSN: 0022-1007

Copyright, 1926, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York

1926

J Exp Med (1926) 44 (2): 147–149.

https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.44.2.147

These experiments seem to justify the conclusion that mechanical tension may determine the polarity of cell division and line of growth of developing fibroblasts, and further that a shift in tension may cause a shift in position of fibroblasts already formed.

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