Developmental Mechanism - Epithelial Invagination
Introduction
Epithelia during development often undergo folding or invagination, such that some of the epithelial cells are "pinched off" fron the existing epithelia to form a distinct structure. For example this process occurs in neural tube formation, sensory placode (otic and optic vesicles). Changes in cell shape require changes in the actin cytoskeleton and recent researh has shown Rho1 a small GTPase of the Rho subfamily (Rho, Rac and Cdc42) which acts as regulatory switch for actin cytoskeleton is activated in epithelial cells for invagination process initiation.
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