Figure 3
From: Mechanical Tension Drives Elongational Growth of the Embryonic Gut
Static mechanical tension induces growth of cultured guts. (a) Scheme of culture method to apply static longitudinal mechanical stress (see Materials & Methods). (b) Representative outcome of an experiment with 3 E8 guts cultured respectively without stress and with 80 Pa and 105 Pa applied stress, after 48 h culture. (c,d) Before/after 48 h culture comparison of whole gut (c) and caeca (d) morphological changes without (top) and with (bottom) tension. The scale of the whole guts (c) or caeca (d) is that shown in the top left quadrant.
