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vol. 128 no. 20, 3687-3693
- Published online October 15, 2015.
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- ABSTRACT
- Introduction
- Cortical tension, a sustained contraction of the cortical cytoskeleton
- Reduction of tension at contacts between adherent cells
- Molecular binding energies and cell adhesion
- The cortex at cell–cell contacts
- Adhesion molecules mechanically link cells
- The strength of cell adhesion
- Tissue surface tension as a measure of adhesion strength
- Adhesion strength, a unifying framework for morphogenesis
- Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
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