Journal
CHAOS
Volume 31, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/5.0020906
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- Sherman Fairchild Foundation
- College of Wooster
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Geographic tongue, also known as benign migratory glossitis, is a condition characterized by chronic lesions that slowly move across the tongue surface. Mathematical modeling shows that the observed patterns of geographic tongue lesions can be explained by propagating reaction-diffusion waves on curved surfaces.
Geographic tongue or benign migratory glossitis is a condition of an unknown cause characterized by chronic lesions that slowly migrate across the surface of the tongue. The condition's characteristic wavefronts suggest that it can be modeled as a reaction-diffusion system. Here, we present a model for geographic tongue pattern evolution using reaction-diffusion equations applied to portions of spheroids and paraboloids that approximate a tongue shape. We demonstrate that the observed patterns of geographic tongue lesions can be explained by propagating reaction-diffusion waves on these variably curved surfaces.
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