Temporal instability of the frontier between mechanically regulated tissues

Fuente: arXiv
Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Hauptverfasser: Gómez-Nava, Luis, Chekroun, Djamel, Ionescu, Ioan, Durand, Marc
Format: Preprint
Veröffentlicht: 2024
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
_version_ 1866915025607720960
author Gómez-Nava, Luis
Chekroun, Djamel
Ionescu, Ioan
Durand, Marc
author_facet Gómez-Nava, Luis
Chekroun, Djamel
Ionescu, Ioan
Durand, Marc
contents The stability of the boundary between regenerating tissues is essential to the maintenance of their integrity and biological function. Stress is known to play an important role in the regulation of cell division, cell growth and cell death, and it is thought that stress balance ensures the stability of tissue boundaries. Using a multicellular numerical model, we investigate the stability of the frontier between two confluent cell monolayers whose cell renewal is mechanically regulated. We show that even for two tissues having similar mechanical and biological properties, the location of their common frontier is subject to strong fluctuations until the complete disappearance of one of the tissues. Using a population dynamics model, we show that this temporal instability is inherent to the stochasticity of cell division and cell death events, and derive an analytical expression for the mean disappearance time of a tissue. These results call for a rethinking of the regulating mechanism of tissue renewal.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2401_07569
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Temporal instability of the frontier between mechanically regulated tissues
Gómez-Nava, Luis
Chekroun, Djamel
Ionescu, Ioan
Durand, Marc
Biological Physics
The stability of the boundary between regenerating tissues is essential to the maintenance of their integrity and biological function. Stress is known to play an important role in the regulation of cell division, cell growth and cell death, and it is thought that stress balance ensures the stability of tissue boundaries. Using a multicellular numerical model, we investigate the stability of the frontier between two confluent cell monolayers whose cell renewal is mechanically regulated. We show that even for two tissues having similar mechanical and biological properties, the location of their common frontier is subject to strong fluctuations until the complete disappearance of one of the tissues. Using a population dynamics model, we show that this temporal instability is inherent to the stochasticity of cell division and cell death events, and derive an analytical expression for the mean disappearance time of a tissue. These results call for a rethinking of the regulating mechanism of tissue renewal.
title Temporal instability of the frontier between mechanically regulated tissues
topic Biological Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07569