[HTML][HTML] Minimal vertex model explains how the amnioserosa avoids fluidization during Drosophila dorsal closure

I Tah, D Haertter, JM Crawford, DP Kiehart, CF Schmidt… - ArXiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Dorsal closure is a process that occurs during embryogenesis of Drosophila melanogaster.
During dorsal closure, the amnioserosa (AS), a one-cell thick epithelial tissue that fills the …

Cell-substrate distance fluctuations of confluent cells enable fast and coherent collective migration

M Jipp, BD Wagner, L Egbringhoff, A Teichmann… - Cell Reports, 2024 - cell.com
Collective cell migration is an emergent phenomenon, with long-range cell-cell
communication influenced by various factors, including transmission of forces, viscoelasticity …

Hydrodynamics of pulsating active liquids

T Banerjee, T Desaleux, J Ranft, É Fodor - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.19955, 2024 - arxiv.org
Inspired by dense contractile tissues, where cells are subject to periodic deformation, we
formulate and study a generic hydrodynamic theory of pulsating active liquids. Combining …

Association between urbanicity and depressive symptoms among Chinese middle-aged and older adults

Y Chen, P Wang, Q He, J Zhu, M Kivimäki, G Livingston… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Background Depression is a pressing public health issue and may be affected by
multifaceted urban living, yet the specific urbanicity elements associated is unclear. Using a …

Active fluctuations of cells reduce friction to enable fast and coherent collective migration

M Jipp, BD Wagner, L Egbringhoff, A Teichmann… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Collective cell migration is an emergent phenomenon, with long-range cell-cell
communication influenced by various factors, including transmission of forces, viscoelasticity …

Universality in the Mechanical Behavior of Vertex Models for Biological Tissues

OK Damavandi, S Arzash, E Lawson-Keister… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Simple vertex models, where the cell shape is defined as a network of edges and vertices,
have made useful predictions about the collective behavior of confluent biological tissues …