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Research Paper
The Textural Aspects of Vessel Formation during Embryo Development and Their Relation to Gastrulation Movements
Vincent Fleury, Mathieu Unbekandt, Alia Al-Kilani and Thi-Hanh Nguyen
volume 3 | issue 1
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We have investigated the microscopic physical inhomogeneity ("texture") of the avian embryo in vivo by shadowgraph. This non-invasive technique allows one to correlate the shape of blood vessels to the physical, micro-structural, pattern that exists in the embryo prior to vessel appearance. Before any vessel forms, vascular paths are present and are pre-patterned, by fields of cellular orientations and lumen anisotropies. We find the origin of this pre-pattern in the movements of the embryo during gastrulation, and the related deformation and force field, which establish both the animal and vascular pattern.
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