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Neurological injuries predominantly result in loss of functioning of neurons. These neurons may regain function after particular medical therapeutics, such as Chondroitinase ABC (ChABC), that promote axon elongation by manipulating the…

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In this paper I study a model for a growing surface in the presence of anomalous diffusion, also known as the Fractal Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation (FKPZ). This equation includes a fractional Laplacian that accounts for the possibility that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-04-21 Eytan Katzav

Motivated by the observation that anomalous diffusion is a realistic feature in the dynamics of biological populations, we investigate its implications in a paradigmatic model for the evolution of a single species density $u(x,t)$. The…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-12-05 Eduardo H. Colombo , Celia Anteneodo

In cell membranes, proteins and lipids diffuse in a highly crowded and heterogeneous landscape, where aggregates and dense domains of proteins or lipids obstruct the path of diffusing molecules. In general, hindered motion gives rise to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-06-16 Margaret R. Horton , Felix Höfling , Joachim O. Rädler , Thomas Franosch

Strong experimental evidence has indicated that tumor growth belongs to the molecular beam epitaxy universality class. This type of growth is characterized by the constraint of cell proliferation to the tumor border, and surface diffusion…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 Carlos Escudero

The migratory dynamics of cells can be influenced by the complex micro-environment through which they move. It remains unclear how the motility machinery of confined cells responds and adapts to their micro-environment. Here, we propose a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-12-04 Johannes Flommersfeld , Stefan Stöberl , Omar Shah , Joachim O. Rädler , Chase P. Broedersz

We investigate the ensemble and time averaged mean squared displacements for particle diffusion in a simple model for disordered media by assuming that the local diffusivity is both fluctuating in time and has a deterministic average growth…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-05 A. G. Cherstvy , R. Metzler

Diffusion MRI may enable non-invasive mapping of axonal microstructure. Most approaches infer axon diameters from effects of time-dependent diffusion on the diffusion-weighted MR signal by modelling axons as straight cylinders. Axons do…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Jan Brabec , Samo Lasic , Markus Nilsson

Continuum simulations of self-organized lateral compositional modulation growth in InAs/AlAs short-period superlattices on InP substrate are presented. Results of the simulations correspond quantitatively to the results of synchrotron x-ray…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Caha , V. Holý , Kevin E. Bassler

We study non-equilibrium bacterial colony growth using a geometry-first, time-resolved analysis of morphology. From time-lapse microscopy data, we track the coupled evolution of area, perimeter, and boundary-sensitive shape descriptors…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-06 Benjamin Evert Himberg , Sanghita Sengupta

We present a position Langevin equation for overdamped particle motion on rough two-dimensional surfaces. A Brownian Dynamics algorithm is suggested to evolve this equation numerically, allowing for the prediction of effective (projected)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Ali Naji , Frank L. H. Brown

Neuronal growth cones are the most sensitive amongst eukaryotic cells in responding to directional chemical cues. Although a dynamic microtubule cytoskeleton has been shown to be essential for growth cone turning, the precise nature of…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2019-05-16 Saurabh Mahajan , Chaitanya A. Athale

A limited mobility nonequilibrium solid-on-solid dynamical model for kinetic surface growth is introduced as a simple description for the morphological evolution of a growing interface under random vapor deposition and surface diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Das Sarma , P. Punyindu

Plant hormone auxin has critical roles in plant growth, dependent on its heterogeneous distribution in plant tissues. Exactly how auxin transport and developmental processes such as growth coordinate to achieve the precise patterns of auxin…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-14 Henry R. Allen , Mariya Ptashnyk

The dynamics of cellular pattern formation is crucial for understanding embryonic development and tissue morphogenesis. Recent studies have shown that human dermal fibroblasts cultured on liquid crystal elastomers can exhibit an increase in…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-08-25 Mengyang Gu , Xinyi Fang , Yimin Luo

Early diagnosis and noninvasive monitoring of neurological disorders require sensitivity to elusive cellular-level alterations that occur much earlier than volumetric changes observable with the millimeter-resolution of medical imaging…

In many normative theories of synaptic plasticity, weight updates implicitly depend on the chosen parametrization of the weights. This problem relates, for example, to neuronal morphology: synapses which are functionally equivalent in terms…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-25 Elena Kreutzer , Walter M. Senn , Mihai A. Petrovici

The nervous system is today recognized to play an important role in the development of cancer. Indeed, neurons extend long processes (axons) that grow and infiltrate tumors in order to regulate the progression of the disease in a positive…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Sophie Chauvet , Florence Hubert , Fanny Mann , Mathieu Mezache

Cell migration often exhibits long-range temporal correlations and anomalous diffusion, even in the absence of external guidance cues such as chemical gradients or topographical constraints. These observations raise a fundamental question:…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-25 Gustavo Cornejo-Olea , Lucas Buvinic , Jerome Darbon , Radek Erban , Andrea Ravasio , Anastasios Matzavinos

Understanding and predicting the progression of neurodegenerative diseases remains a major challenge in medical AI, with significant implications for early diagnosis, disease monitoring, and treatment planning. However, most available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Nivetha Jayakumar , Swakshar Deb , Bahram Jafrasteh , Qingyu Zhao , Miaomiao Zhang