PUBLICATION
Surface tension and modeling of cellular intercalation during zebrafish gastrulation
- Authors
- Calmelet, C., and Sepich, D.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-100518-6
- Date
- 2010
- Source
- Mathematical biosciences and engineering : MBE 7(2): 259-275 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Sepich, Diane
- Keywords
- Cellular intercalation, Cellular Potts Model, zebrafish, surface tension, anisotropic adhesion, cortical tension, total energy, mophogenetic movements, modeling, stability
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Cell Movement/physiology*
- Gastrulation/physiology*
- Models, Biological*
- Notochord/cytology
- Notochord/physiology*
- Surface Tension
- Zebrafish/embryology*
- PubMed
- 20462289 Full text @ Math. Biosci. Eng.
Citation
Calmelet, C., and Sepich, D. (2010) Surface tension and modeling of cellular intercalation during zebrafish gastrulation. Mathematical biosciences and engineering : MBE. 7(2):259-275.
Abstract
In this paper we discuss a model of zebrafish embryo notochord development based on the effect of surface tension of cells at the boundaries. We study the process of interaction of mesodermal cells at the boundaries due to adhesion and cortical tension, resulting in cellular intercalation. From in vivo experiments, we obtain cell outlines of time-lapse images of cell movements during zebrafish embryo development. Using Cellular Potts Model, we calculate the total surface energy of the system of cells at different time intervals at cell contacts. We analyze the variations of total energy depending on nature of cell contacts. We demonstrate that our model can be viable by calculating the total surface energy value for experimentally observed configurations of cells and showing that in our model these configurations correspond to a decrease in total energy values in both two and three dimensions.
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