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An innovative extension of Geometric Brownian Motion model is developed by incorporating a weighting factor and a stochastic function modelled as a mixture of power and trigonometric functions. Simulations based on this Modified Brownian…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2015-07-09 Gurjeet Dhesi , Muhammad Bilal Shakeel , Ling Xiao

Recent single molecule experiments probing the passage process of a short single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) through a membrane channel (translocation) allow to measure the passage time distribution. Building on a recent modelling approach (D. K.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ralf Metzler , Joseph Klafter

Mathematical and computational models can assist in gaining an understanding of cell behavior at many levels of organization. Here, we review models in the literature that focus on eukaryotic cell motility at 3 size scales: intracellular…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-27 Andreas Buttenschön , Leah Edelstein-Keshet

The stochastic trajectories of molecules in living cells, as well as the dynamics in many other complex systems, often exhibit memory in their path over long periods of time. In addition, these systems can show dynamic heterogeneities due…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-10 Michał Balcerek , Agnieszka Wyłomańska , Krzysztof Burnecki , Ralf Metzler , Diego Krapf

We introduce a model for stochastic transport on a one-dimensional substrate with particles assuming different conformations during their stepping cycles. These conformations correspond to different footprints on the substrate: in order to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-26 Yvan Rousset , Luca Ciandrini , Norbert Kern

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

The mathematical formulation of the model for molecular movement of single motor proteins driven by cyclic biochemical reactions in an aqueous environment leads to a drifted Brownian motion characterized by coupled diffusion equations. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hong Qian

In this article we explore the phenomena of nonequilibrium stochastic process starting from the phenomenological Brownian motion. The essential points are described in terms of Einstein's theory of Brownian motion and then the theory…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Deb Shankar Ray

The migration of living cells obeys usually the Einstein law of Brownian motion. While the latter is due to the thermal motion of surrounding matter, the cells locomotion is generally associated to their vitality. In the present paper the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-06-11 R. Tsekov , M. C. Lensen

The dynamic interplay between collective cell movement and the various molecules involved in the accompanying cell signalling mechanisms plays a crucial role in many biological processes including normal tissue development and pathological…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2016-07-20 Pia Domschke , Dumitru Trucu , Alf Gerisch , Mark A. J. Chaplain

In the absence of environmental cues, a migrating cell performs an isotropic random motion. Recently, the breaking of this isotropy has been observed when cells move in the presence of asymmetric adhesive patterns. However, up to now the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Le Berre , Yan-Jun Liu , J. Hu , P. Maiuri , O. Bénichou , R. Voituriez , Y. Chen , M. Piel

We revisit the modeling framework introduced in [N. Loy and L. Preziosi: Bull. Math. Bio., 85, 2023] to describe the dynamics of cell orientation under cyclic stretch. We propose a reformulation based on the principles of Stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-22 Rohan Abeyaratne , Sanjay Dharmaravan , Giuseppe Saccomandi , Giuseppe Tomassetti

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

Experiments of cell migration and chemotaxis assays have been classically performed in the so-called Boyden Chambers. A recent technology, xCELLigence Real Time Cell Analysis, is now allowing to monitor the cell migration in real time. This…

Long-term videomicroscopy and computer-aided statistical analysis were used to determine some characteristic parameters of in vitro cell motility and proliferation in three established cell lines derived from human glioblastoma tumors.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Hegedus , A. Czirok , I. Fazekas , T. Babel , E. Madarasz , T. Vicsek

The process of diffusion is the most elementary stochastic transport process. Brownian motion, the representative model of diffusion, played a important role in the advancement of scientific fields such as physics, chemistry, biology and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-11 Alexandre Bovet

In this work, we develop a stochastic multiscale model for glioma growth and invasion in the brain, incorporating the effects of therapeutic interventions. The model accounts for tumor cell migration influenced by brain tissue heterogeneity…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-10 Martina Conte , Sandesh Hiremath , Christina Surulescu

Brownian motion is a ubiquitous physical phenomenon across the sciences. After its discovery by Brown and intensive study since the first half of the 20th century, many different aspects of Brownian motion and stochastic processes in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-29 Ralf Metzler

An individual-based model of stochastic branching is proposed and studied, in which point particles drift in $\bar{\mathds{R}}_{+}:=[0,+\infty)$ towards the origin (edge) with unit speed, where each of them splits into two particles that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-10-30 Yuri Kozitsky

Collective cell migration plays a central role in tissue development, morphogenesis, wound repair and cancer progression. With the growing realization that physical forces mediate cell motility in development and physiology, a key…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-12-07 Shiladitya Banerjee , M. Cristina Marchetti