Emergence of epithelial cell density waves

1 Jan 2017Soft Matter

DOI : 10.1039/c7sm01172e

Authors

Shunsuke Yabunaka, Philippe Marcq

Abstract

Epithelial cell monolayers exhibit traveling mechanical waves. We rationalize this observation by studying bifurcations in a hydrodynamic model that takes into account the spatio-temporal variations of the cell density field.