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physics.bio-ph2020★ 3 cited
Collective Motility, Mechanical Waves, and Durotaxis in Cell Clusters
Youyuan Deng, Herbert Levine, Xiaoming Mao +1
Epithelial cell clusters often move collectively on a substrate. Mechanical signals play a major role in organizing this behavior. There are a number of experimental observations i…
physics.bio-ph2018★ 21 cited
Random Walker Models for Durotaxis
Charles R. Doering, Xiaoming Mao, Leonard M. Sander
Motile biological cells in tissue often display the phenomenon of durotaxis, i.e. they tend to move towards stiffer parts of substrate tissue. The mechanism for this behavior is no…