Dense active matter model of motion patterns in confluent cell monolayers

Epithelial cell monolayers show remarkable displacement and velocity correlations over distances of ten or more cell sizes. Here the authors show that cell motility coupled to the collective elastic modes of the cell sheet is sufficient to produce characteristic swirl-like correlations.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Silke Henkes, Kaja Kostanjevec, J. Martin Collinson, Rastko Sknepnek, Eric Bertin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15164-5