Noninvasive rheological inference from stable flows in confined tissues
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| author | Karnat, Marc Narayana, Gautham Hari Peneti, Sudheer Kumar Guglielmotti, Victoria Rahaman, Qazi Saaheelur Jain, Shreyansh Ladoux, Benoît Lin, Shao-Zhen Tlili, Sham Mège, René-Marc Rupprecht, Jean-François |
| author_facet | Karnat, Marc Narayana, Gautham Hari Peneti, Sudheer Kumar Guglielmotti, Victoria Rahaman, Qazi Saaheelur Jain, Shreyansh Ladoux, Benoît Lin, Shao-Zhen Tlili, Sham Mège, René-Marc Rupprecht, Jean-François |
| contents | Quantifying the in-plane rheology of epithelial monolayers remains challenging due to the difficulty of imposing controlled shear. We introduce a self-driven, rheometer-like assay in which collective migration generates stationary shear flows, allowing rheological parameters to be inferred directly from image sequences. The assay relies on two sets of ring-shaped fibronectin patches, micropatterned in arrays for high-throughput imaging. Within isolated rings, the epithelial tissue exhibits persistent rotation, from which we infer active migration stresses and substrate friction. Within partially overlapping rings, the tissue exhibits sustained shear, from which we infer the elastic and viscous responses of the cells. The emergence of a Maxwell-like viscoelastic relation -- characterized by a linear relationship between mean cell deformation and neighbor-exchange rate -- is specifically recapitulated within a wet vertex-model framework, which reproduces experimental measurements only when intercellular viscous dissipation is included alongside substrate friction. We apply our method to discriminate the respective roles of two myosin~II isoforms in tissue mechanics. Overall, by harnessing self-generated stresses instead of externally imposed ones, we propose a noninvasive route to rheological inference in migrating epithelial tissues and, more generally, in actively flowing granular materials. |
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| spellingShingle | Noninvasive rheological inference from stable flows in confined tissues Karnat, Marc Narayana, Gautham Hari Peneti, Sudheer Kumar Guglielmotti, Victoria Rahaman, Qazi Saaheelur Jain, Shreyansh Ladoux, Benoît Lin, Shao-Zhen Tlili, Sham Mège, René-Marc Rupprecht, Jean-François Soft Condensed Matter Tissues and Organs Quantifying the in-plane rheology of epithelial monolayers remains challenging due to the difficulty of imposing controlled shear. We introduce a self-driven, rheometer-like assay in which collective migration generates stationary shear flows, allowing rheological parameters to be inferred directly from image sequences. The assay relies on two sets of ring-shaped fibronectin patches, micropatterned in arrays for high-throughput imaging. Within isolated rings, the epithelial tissue exhibits persistent rotation, from which we infer active migration stresses and substrate friction. Within partially overlapping rings, the tissue exhibits sustained shear, from which we infer the elastic and viscous responses of the cells. The emergence of a Maxwell-like viscoelastic relation -- characterized by a linear relationship between mean cell deformation and neighbor-exchange rate -- is specifically recapitulated within a wet vertex-model framework, which reproduces experimental measurements only when intercellular viscous dissipation is included alongside substrate friction. We apply our method to discriminate the respective roles of two myosin~II isoforms in tissue mechanics. Overall, by harnessing self-generated stresses instead of externally imposed ones, we propose a noninvasive route to rheological inference in migrating epithelial tissues and, more generally, in actively flowing granular materials. |
| title | Noninvasive rheological inference from stable flows in confined tissues |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter Tissues and Organs |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20155 |