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Title: Alignment interactions drive structural transitions in biological tissues
Author: Paoluzzi, Matteo
Angelani, Luca
Gosti, Giorgio
Marchetti, M. Cristina
Pagonabarraga Mora, Ignacio
Ruocco, Giancarlo
Keywords: Teixits (Histologia)
Migració cel·lular
Tissues
Cell migration
Issue Date: 1-Jun-2021
Publisher: American Physical Society
Abstract: Experimental evidence shows that there is a feedback between cell shape and cell motion. How this feedback impacts the collective behavior of dense cell monolayers remains an open question. We investigate the effect of a feedback that tends to align the cell crawling direction with cell elongation in a biological tissue model. We find that the alignment interaction promotes nematic patterns in the fluid phase that eventually undergo a nonequilibrium phase transition into a quasihexagonal solid. Meanwhile, highly asymmetric cells do not undergo the liquid-to-solid transition for any value of the alignment coupling. In this regime, the dynamics of cell centers and shape fluctuation show features typical of glassy systems.
Note: Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.104.044606
It is part of: Physical Review e, 2021, vol. 104, num. 4, p. 044606
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/184778
Related resource: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.104.044606
ISSN: 2470-0045
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