Journal
ORGANOGENESIS
Volume 9, Issue 2, Pages 111-117Publisher
LANDES BIOSCIENCE
DOI: 10.4161/org.25225
Keywords
kidney; juxtaposition; luminal interconnection; lumopathies; invasive behavior
Funding
- National Science Foundation [DGE0644491, DGE-0946799]
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Interconnection of epithelial tubules is a crucial process during organogenesis. Organisms have evolved sets of molecular and cellular strategies to generate an interconnected tubular network during animal development. Spatiotemporal control of common cellular strategies includes dissolution of the basement membrane, apoptosis, rearrangements of cell adhesion junctions, and mesenchymal-like invasive cellular behaviors prior to tubular interconnection. Different model systems exhibit varying degrees of active invasive-like behaviors that precede tubular interconnection, which may reflect changes in cell polarity or differential adhesive cell states. Studies in this newly-emerging field of tubular interconnections will provide a greater understanding of pediatric diseases and cancer metastasis, as well as generate fundamentally new insights into lumen formation pathology, or lumopathies.
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