Two types of critical cell density for mechanical elimination of abnormal cell clusters from epithelial tissue

Sang-Woo Lee; Yoshihiro Morishita

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010178

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Two types of critical cell density for mechanical elimination of abnormal cell clusters from epithelial tissue

Sang-Woo Lee ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sang-Woo Lee, Yoshihiro Morishita

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory for Developmental Morphogeometry, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Japan
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Yoshihiro Morishita

Contributed equally to this work with: Sang-Woo Lee, Yoshihiro Morishita

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: yoshihiro.morishita@riken.jp

Affiliation Laboratory for Developmental Morphogeometry, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Japan

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1095-5949

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Two types of critical cell density for mechanical elimination of abnormal cell clusters from epithelial tissue

Sang-Woo Lee,
Yoshihiro Morishita

Published: June 13, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010178

About the Authors

Sang-Woo Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Sang-Woo Lee, Yoshihiro Morishita

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory for Developmental Morphogeometry, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Japan

Yoshihiro Morishita

Contributed equally to this work with: Sang-Woo Lee, Yoshihiro Morishita

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: yoshihiro.morishita@riken.jp

Affiliation Laboratory for Developmental Morphogeometry, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Japan

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1095-5949

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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