Sentences with phrase «mechanical forces play»

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«Recently, mechanical forces have been increasingly found to play a role in development and tissue regulation,» she says.

Existing experimental evidence showed that mechanical forces were at play in the changes in both fibrosis and cancer and that these forces were important to their development and progression but could not explain the long - ranging changes cells were able to produce to change their environments.

Cells use these forces to sense mechanical changes in their environment, which plays an important role for example in wound healing.

These findings suggest mechanical forces in the early embryo's microenvironment may play a bigger role in its development than scientists had realized.

These turnovers, if they depend on forces exerted at contacts, may play a key role in the mechanical adaptation of epithelia.

A traumatic brain injury is when the brain is damaged by an external mechanical force, like the type you may have in a car accident, if you fall, play sport or if you are assaulted.