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The need to extract and utilize sufficient amounts of oxygen from the environment to sustain life has had an incredible impact on the evolution of the respiratory systems. In particular, breathing amphibians and mammals with their high metabolic rates have…

Introduction During embryonic patterning, individual cells divide, migrate, differentiate, and respond to environmental cues. The extracellular matrix (ECM) is effectively involved in all these dynamic processes during development, maintenance, and disease. Cells are continuously connected with the ECM, a latticework…