Bulk elastic properties of chicken embryos during somitogenesis.docVIP

Agero et al. BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2010, 9:19 /content/9/1/19 RESEARCH Open Access Bulk elastic properties of chicken embryos during Research somitogenesis Ubirajara Agero*1,2, James A Glazier*1 and Michael Hosek1 * Correspondence: Abstract bira@fisica.ufmg.br , glazier@ We present measurements of the bulk Youngs moduli of early chick embryos at Hamburger-Hamilton stage 10. Using a micropipette probe with a force constant k ~0.025 N/m, we applied a known force in the plane of the embryo in the anterior-posterior direction and imaged the resulting tissue displacements. We used a t