Chemotactic Collapse and Mesenchymal Morphogenesis
Cell Behavior
2009-11-10 v1 Analysis of PDEs
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Abstract
We study the effect of chemotactic signaling among mesenchymal cells. We show that the particular physiology of the mesenchymal cells allows one-dimensional collapse in contrast to the case of bacteria, and that the mesenchymal morphogenesis represents thus a more complex type of pattern formation than those found in bacterial colonies. We finally compare our theoretical predictions with recent in vitro experiments.
Cite
@article{arxiv.q-bio/0412050,
title = {Chemotactic Collapse and Mesenchymal Morphogenesis},
author = {Carlos Escudero},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:q-bio/0412050},
year = {2009}
}