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WIRES MECHANISMS OF DISEASE
卷 13, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/wsbm.1514
关键词
biomechanics; chemotaxis; computational modeling; cytokinesis; moving boundary
资金
- National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences [GM66817]
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency [HR0011-16-C-0139]
The ability of a cell to change shape is crucial for maintaining overall organism health. Computational models play a key role in understanding the mechanisms behind this process and involve complex feedback loops and specialized computational techniques. These models aim to simulate biological processes and provide new insights into important cellular functions.
A cell's ability to change shape is one of the most fundamental biological processes and is essential for maintaining healthy organisms. When the ability to control shape goes awry, it often results in a diseased system. As such, it is important to understand the mechanisms that allow a cell to sense and respond to its environment so as to maintain cellular shape homeostasis. Because of the inherent complexity of the system, computational models that are based on sound theoretical understanding of the biochemistry and biomechanics and that use experimentally measured parameters are an essential tool. These models involve an inherent feedback, whereby shape is determined by the action of regulatory signals whose spatial distribution depends on the shape. To carry out computational simulations of these moving boundary problems requires special computational techniques. A variety of alternative approaches, depending on the type and scale of question being asked, have been used to simulate various biological processes, including cell motility, division, mechanosensation, and cell engulfment. In general, these models consider the forces that act on the system (both internally generated, or externally imposed) and the mechanical properties of the cell that resist these forces. Moving forward, making these techniques more accessible to the non-expert will help improve interdisciplinary research thereby providing new insight into important biological processes that affect human health. This article is categorized under: Cancer > Cancer>Computational Models Cancer > Cancer>Molecular and Cellular Physiology
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