Delamination (IMAGE)

Duke University

Delamination

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In this series (left-to-right from top left), epithelial cells of a zebrafish gut squeeze against and eventually eject in under ten minutes a fellow cell that has been flagged for disposal because of a chemical exposure.

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John Rawls Lab, Duke University

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