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Branching Morphogenesis


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Jamie A. Davies
Edinburgh University
College of Medicine

This book is co-published with Springer.

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ISBN: 978-0-387-25615-3
Pub date: 2005-10-15
246 pages
110 figures
2 tables
7 color pages

Table of contents

1. Why a Book on Branching, and Why Now?
Jamie A. Davies

2. Branching Morphogenesis in Vertebrate Neurons
Katherine M. Kollins and Roger W. Davenport

3. Branching of Single Cells in Arabidopsis
Daniel Bouyer and Martin Hülskamp

4. Branching in Fungal Hyphae and Fungal Tissues: Growing Mycelia in a Desktop Computer
David Moore, Liam J. McNulty and Audrius Meskauskas

5. Branching in Colonial Hydroids
Igor A. Kosevich

6. How Is the Branching of Animal Blood Vessels Implemented?
Sybill Patan

7. Extracellular Matrix Remodeling in Mammary Gland Branching Morphogenesis and Breast Cancer: The Double-Edged Sword
Eva A. Turley and Mina J. Bissell

8. Branching Morphogenesis in Mammalian Kidneys
Jamie A. Davies

9. Embryonic Salivary Gland Branching Morphogenesis
Tina Jaskoll and Michael Melnick

10. Branching Morphogenesis of the Prostate
A.A. Thomson and P.C. Marker

11. Uterine Glands
Thomas E. Spencer, Karen D. Carpenter, Kanako Hayashi and Jianbo Hu

12. Physical Mechanisms of Branching Morphogenesis in Animals: From Viscous Fingering to Cartilage Rings
Vincent Fleury, Tomoko Watanabe, Thi-Hanh Nguyen, Mathieu Unbekandt, David Warburton, Marcus Dejmek, Minh Binh Nguyen, Anke Lindner and Laurent Schwartz

13. Afterword
Jamie A. Davies