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The mechanisms underlying collective migration, or the coordinated movement of a population of cells, are not well understood despite its ubiquitous nature. As a means to investigate collective migration, we consider a wound healing scenario in which a population of cells fills in the empty space left from a scratch wound. Here we present a simplified mathematical model that uses reaction-diffusion equations to model collective migration during wound healing with an emphasis on cell movement and its response to both cell signaling and cell-cell adhesion. We use the model to investigate the effect of the MAPK signaling cascade on cell-cell adhesion during wound healing after EGF treatment. Our results suggest that activation of the MAPK signaling cascade stimulates collective migration through increases in the pulling strength of leader cells. We further use the model to suggest that treating a cell population with EGF converts the time to wound closure (as function of wound area) from parabolic to linear.
We present a stochastic model which describes fronts of cells invading a wound. In the model cells can move, proliferate, and experience cell-cell adhesion. We find several qualitatively different regimes of front motion and analyze the transitions b
Cells crawling through tissues migrate inside a complex fibrous environment called the extracellular matrix (ECM), which provides signals regulating motility. Here we investigate one such well-known pathway, involving mutually antagonistic signalling
We present a discrete stochastic model which represents many of the salient features of the biological process of wound healing. The model describes fronts of cells invading a wound. We have numerical results in one and two dimensions. In one dimensi
Collections of cells exhibit coherent migration during morphogenesis, cancer metastasis, and wound healing. In many cases, bigger clusters split, smaller sub-clusters collide and reassemble, and gaps continually emerge. The connections between cell-l
Massive single-cell profiling efforts have accelerated our discovery of the cellular composition of the human body, while at the same time raising the need to formalise this new knowledge. Here, we review current cell ontology efforts to harmonise an