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| author | Yu, Jiguang Wang, Louis Shuo Ban, Shihan |
| author_facet | Yu, Jiguang Wang, Louis Shuo Ban, Shihan |
| contents | Tissues must maintain macroscopic homeostasis despite the continuous microscopic accumulation of cellular damage. Theoretical models of this process often suffer from a disconnect between microscopic biophysics and macroscopic phenomenological games. Here, we bridge this gap by deriving an exact dimensionality reduction of a physiologically structured partial differential equation (PDE) into a low-dimensional dynamical system. Under the condition of uniform mortality, we mathematically demonstrate that tissue homeostasis operates as an induced Nash equilibrium, where the per-capita net growth rates of stem and differentiated phenotypes perfectly equalize. This reduction yields closed-form algebraic rules, the Ratio and Equalization Laws, that map continuous microscopic state dynamics to measurable macroscopic observables. To demonstrate the biological utility of this framework, we present a concrete, falsifiable case study of the murine intestinal crypt. By modeling crypt regeneration following irradiation-induced stem cell depletion, our framework successfully recovers the experimentally observed reliance on progenitor dedifferentiation. Furthermore, the model generates explicit, testable predictions, enabling the in vivo estimation of hard-to-measure lineage plasticity rates directly from aggregate static cell counts. This work provides a rigorous, predictive mathematical foundation for understanding how fast-renewing tissues filter microscopic noise to sustain macroscopic regenerative capacity. |
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| spellingShingle | From Microscopic Damage to Macroscopic Games: A Dimensionality Reduction of Stem Cell Homeostasis Yu, Jiguang Wang, Louis Shuo Ban, Shihan Analysis of PDEs Numerical Analysis Tissues must maintain macroscopic homeostasis despite the continuous microscopic accumulation of cellular damage. Theoretical models of this process often suffer from a disconnect between microscopic biophysics and macroscopic phenomenological games. Here, we bridge this gap by deriving an exact dimensionality reduction of a physiologically structured partial differential equation (PDE) into a low-dimensional dynamical system. Under the condition of uniform mortality, we mathematically demonstrate that tissue homeostasis operates as an induced Nash equilibrium, where the per-capita net growth rates of stem and differentiated phenotypes perfectly equalize. This reduction yields closed-form algebraic rules, the Ratio and Equalization Laws, that map continuous microscopic state dynamics to measurable macroscopic observables. To demonstrate the biological utility of this framework, we present a concrete, falsifiable case study of the murine intestinal crypt. By modeling crypt regeneration following irradiation-induced stem cell depletion, our framework successfully recovers the experimentally observed reliance on progenitor dedifferentiation. Furthermore, the model generates explicit, testable predictions, enabling the in vivo estimation of hard-to-measure lineage plasticity rates directly from aggregate static cell counts. This work provides a rigorous, predictive mathematical foundation for understanding how fast-renewing tissues filter microscopic noise to sustain macroscopic regenerative capacity. |
| title | From Microscopic Damage to Macroscopic Games: A Dimensionality Reduction of Stem Cell Homeostasis |
| topic | Analysis of PDEs Numerical Analysis |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12713 |