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Will publishes a review on basement membrane remodeling in Matrix Biology

May. 1, 2018—Graduate student Will Ramos-Lewis published a mini-review, “Basement membrane mechanics shape development:  Lessons from the fly”, discussing the slew of recent papers analyzing basement membranes in Drosophila.  Strong work, Will!

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Hutson and Page-McCaw labs publish article in Biophysical Journal.

Oct. 5, 2017—Your browser doesn’t support video. Please download the file: video/mp4   The article, entitled “Multiple Mechanisms Drive Calcium Signal Dynamics around Laser-Induced Epithelial, Wounds”, describes how different types of cell and tissue damage result in different mechanisms of signaling to the neighboring healthy cells.  Cells in the center of the wound die immediately, and these...

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Watch the Vanderbilt news video on our recent paper!

Oct. 5, 2017—Click the image to see the video–       The rest of the press release is available here.

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A new R21 to study basement membrane repair

May. 1, 2017—NIAMS has awarded the Page-McCaw lab a new, 2-year R21 grant to study how basement membrane is repaired after damage.  The lab has developed a new model of basement membrane injury, analyzing the basement membrane around the gut after feeding adult animals the noxious agent DSS.  Graduate student Angela Howard is leading this work, and has documented...

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