Tissue morphogenesis often generates mechanical forces that alter cell shapes and arrangements, resembling collective cell migration-like behaviors.
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Tissue morphogenesis
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The review describes in vivo applications of optogenetic methods to dissect collective cell migration and tissue morphogenesis during development and highlights promising future approaches.
Optogenetics enables spatiotemporal control of protein activity at subcellular, cellular, and tissue levels and is presented as a strong strategy for studying developmental collective migration and morphogenesis.
Traditional genetic approaches often face challenges and limitations in dissecting collective cell migration and tissue morphogenesis in complex developmental tissues.
Collective cell migration during development is often coupled to other cellular and tissue processes and influenced by surrounding environments, making mechanistic dissection difficult.