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This work concerns with a class of chemotaxis models in which external sources, comprising nonlocal and gradient-dependent damping reactions, influence the motion of a cell density attracted by a chemical signal. The mechanism of the two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-17 Rafael Díaz Fuentes , Silvia Frassu , Giuseppe Viglialoro

Amoeboid motion is a dynamic mode of cell motility essential for processes such as the immune response and wound healing. This review examines recent developments in the mathematical and computational modeling of amoeboid crawling, focusing…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Sergio Alonso , Carsten Beta

Collections of cells exhibit coherent migration during morphogenesis, cancer metastasis, and wound healing. In many cases, bigger clusters split, smaller sub-clusters collide and reassemble, and gaps continually emerge. The connections…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Ushasi Roy , Andrew Mugler

Chemotaxis and haptotaxis have been a main theme in the macroscopic study of bacterial and cellular motility. In this work we investigate the influence these processes have on the shape and motility of fast migrating cells. We note that…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2016-12-08 Aaron Brunk , Niklas Kolbe , Nikolaos Sfakianakis

We provide a short review of existing models with multiple taxis performed by (at least) one species and consider a new mathematical model for tumor invasion featuring two mutually exclusive cell phenotypes (migrating and proliferating).…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Niklas Kolbe , Nikolaos Sfakianakis , Christian Stinner , Christina Surulescu , Jonas Lenz

Cell migration plays a fundamental role in numerous physiological processes, including embryonic development, wound healing, and cancer metastasis. While cell-cell adhesion is known to regulate motion by shaping cell morphology and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Anh Q. Nguyen , Pradip K. Bera , Jacob Notbohm , Dapeng Bi

In this manuscript, we consider the modelling of cellular adhesions, which is a key interaction between biological cells. Continuum models of the diffusion-advection-reaction type have long been used in tissue modelling. In 2006, Armstrong,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-03 Andreas Buttenschön , Thomas Hillen

A slowly-varying or thin-layer multiscale assumption empowers macroscale understanding of many physical scenarios from dispersion in pipes and rivers, including beams, shells, and the modulation of nonlinear waves, to homogenisation of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-01-22 A. J. Roberts

Mathematical modelling has a long history in the context of collective cell migration, with applications throughout development, disease and regenerative medicine. The aim of modelling in this context is to provide a framework in which to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-24 Ruth E. Baker , Rebecca M. Crossley , Carles Falco , Simon F. Martina-Perez

A two-dimensional mathematical model for cells migrating without adhesion capabilities is presented and analyzed. Cells are represented by their cortex, which is modelled as an elastic curve, subject to an internal pressure force. Net…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-14 Gaspard Jankowiak , Diane Peurichard , Anne Reversat , Christian Schmeiser , Michael Sixt

The phenomenological model for cell shape deformation and cell migration (Chen et.al. 2018; Vermolen and Gefen 2012) is extended with the incorporation of cell traction forces and the evolution of cell equilibrium shapes as a result of cell…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2021-04-27 Qiyao Peng , Fred Vermolen , Daphne Weihs

The capability of cells to form surface extensions to non-locally probe the surrounding environment plays a key role in cell migration. The existing mathematical models for migration of cell populations driven by this non-local form of…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-24 Tommaso Lorenzi , Nadia Loy , Chiara Villa

From a systems biology perspective the majority of cancer models, although interesting and providing a qualitative explanation of some problems, have a major disadvantage in that they usually miss a genuine connection with experimental…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Zuzanna Szymańska , Jakub Skrzeczkowski , Błażej Miasojedow , Piotr Gwiazda

Based on symmetry consideration of migration and shape deformations, we formulate phenomenologically the dynamics of cell crawling in two dimensions. Forces are introduced to change the cell shape. The shape deformations induce migration of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Takao Ohta , Mitsusuke Tarama , Masaki Sano

Collective cell migration plays a crucial role in numerous biological processes, including tumour growth, wound healing, and the immune response. Often, the migrating population consists of cells with various different phenotypes. This…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-01 Rebecca M. Crossley , Philip K. Maini , Ruth E. Baker

Cell migration is essential for regulating many biological processes in physiological or pathological conditions, including embryonic development and cancer invasion. In vitro and in silico studies suggest that collective cell migration is…

Cell migration is crucial to many physiological and pathological processes. During migration, a cell adapts its morphology, including the overall morphology and nucleus morphology, in response to various cues in complex microenvironments,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-08-28 Yanping Liu , Yang Jiao , Qihui Fan , Xinwei Li , Zhichao Liu , Jun Hu , Jianwei Shuai , Liyu Liu , Zhangyong Li

Non-local advection is a key process in a range of biological systems, from cells within individuals to the movement of whole organisms. Consequently, in recent years, there has been increasing attention on modelling non-local advection…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-14 Valeria Giunta , Thomas Hillen , Mark A. Lewis , Jonathan R. Potts

Continuum models for the spatial dynamics of growing cell populations have been widely used to investigate the mechanisms underpinning tissue development and tumour invasion. These models consist of nonlinear partial differential equations…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-15 Mark AJ Chaplain , Tommaso Lorenzi , Fiona R Macfarlane

This paper is concerned with a non-homogeneous in space and non-local in time random walk model for anomalous subdiffusive transport of cells. Starting with a Markov model involving a structured probability density function, we derive the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-21 S. Fedotov , A. O. Ivanov , A. Y. Zubarev