Journal
SOFT MATTER
Volume 10, Issue 12, Pages 1885-1890Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c3sm52893f
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- NSF [CMMI-1334611]
- Dean of A&S and the Chancellor's Fund at Syracuse University
- [NSF-DMR-0645373]
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Recent observations demonstrate that confluent tissues exhibit features of glassy dynamics, such as caging behavior and dynamical heterogeneities, although it has remained unclear how single-cell properties control this behavior. Here we develop numerical and theoretical models to calculate energy barriers to cell rearrangements, which help govern cell migration in cell monolayers. In contrast to work on sheared foams, we find that energy barrier heights are exponentially distributed and depend systematically on the cell's number of neighbors. Based on these results, we predict glassy two-time correlation functions for cell motion, with a timescale that increases rapidly as cell activity decreases. These correlation functions are used to construct simple random walks that reproduce the caging behavior observed for cell trajectories in experiments. This work provides a theoretical framework for predicting collective motion of cells in wound-healing, embryogenesis and cancer tumorogenesis.
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