Models of collective cell spreading with variable cell aspect ration: a motivation for degenerate diffusion models

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Continuum diffusion models are often used to represent the collective motion of cell populations. Most previous studies have simply used linear diffusion to represent collective cell spreading, while others found that degenerate nonlinear diffusion provides a better match to experimental cell density profiles. In the cell modeling literature there is no guidance available with regard to which approach is more appropriate for representing the spreading of cell populations. Furthermore, there i...

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Authors: Simpson, M; Baker, R; McCue, S

• Publisher: American Physical Society
• Publication date: 2011-01-01