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Marta Linde-Medina1, Ralph Marcucio1

  • 1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, San Francisco General Hospital, Orthopaedic Trauma Institute, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA.

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
|February 6, 2018
PubMed

Keywords:
BuddingEvaginationInvaginationMechanical forcesMorphological motifs

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