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Forces Generated by Cell Intercalculation Tow Epidermal Sheets in Mammalian Tissue Morphogenesis
… closure. This mechanism is a novel mode of epithelial fusion in which forces generated by cell intercalation are leveraged to tow the surrounding tissue. Functional analyses in vivo show that this mechanism requires alpha- 5 beta -1 integrin/fibronectin and myosin II-dependent cell motility, …