Are tumor cell lineages solely shaped by mechanical forces?
Cell Behavior
2017-02-22 v1 Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases
Pattern Formation and Solitons
Tissues and Organs
Abstract
This paper investigates cells proliferation dynamics in small tumor cell aggregates using an individual based model (IBM). The simulation model is designed to study the morphology of the cell population and of the cell lineages as well as the impact of the orientation of the division plane on this morphology. Our IBM model is based on the hypothesis that cells are incompressible objects that grow in size and divide once a threshold size is reached, and that newly born cell adhere to the existing cell cluster. We performed comparisons between the simulation model and experimental data by using several statistical indicators. The results suggest that the emergence of particular morphologies can be explained by simple mechanical interactions.
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@article{arxiv.1702.06192,
title = {Are tumor cell lineages solely shaped by mechanical forces?},
author = {Mathieu Leroy-Lerêtre and Giacomo Dimarco and Martine Cazales and Marie-Laure Boizeau and Bernard Ducommun and Valèrie Lobjois and Pierre Degond},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.06192},
year = {2017}
}