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SUBMITTER: Ferreira SA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6170409 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20181003 1
Modifiable hydrogels have revealed tremendous insight into how physical characteristics of cells' 3D environment drive stem cell lineage specification. However, in native tissues, cells do not passively receive signals from their niche. Instead they actively probe and modify their pericellular space to suit their needs, yet the dynamics of cells' reciprocal interactions with their pericellular environment when encapsulated within hydrogels remains relatively unexplored. Here, we show that human ...[more]