Physical Confinement and Cell Proximity Increase Cell Migration Rates and Invasiveness: A Mathematical Model of Cancer Cell Invasion through Flexible Channels

no code implementations • 23 Aug 2022 • Qiyao Peng, Fred J Vermolen, Daphne Weihs

On the other hand, in the case of closely adjacent cells, effectively performing collective migration, the leader cell moves $12\%$ faster since the follower cell pushes it.

A Formalism for Modelling Traction forces and Cell Shape Evolution during Cell Migration in Various Biomedical Processes

no code implementations • 10 Dec 2020 • Qiyao Peng, Fred Vermolen, Daphne Weihs

The phenomenological model for cell shape deformation and cell migration (Chen et. al.