Growth anisotropy of the extracellular matrix shapes a develo** organ

S Harmansa, A Erlich, C Eloy, G Zurlo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Final organ size and shape result from volume expansion by growth and shape changes by
contractility. Complex morphologies can also arise from differences in growth rate between …

How dynamic prestress governs the shape of living systems, from the subcellular to tissue scale

A Erlich, J Étienne, J Fouchard, T Wyatt - Interface Focus, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Cells and tissues change shape both to carry out their function and during pathology. In
most cases, these deformations are driven from within the systems themselves. This is …

Strain stiffening retards growth instability in residually stressed biological tissues

Y Wang, Y Du, F Xu - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2023 - Elsevier
Soft biological tissues often exhibit notable strain stiffening under increasing stretch, and this
can have significant effects on tissue growth and morphological development, such as …

Basic biomechanics for craniofacial surgeons: The responses of alloplastic materials and living tissues to mechanical forces

JC Yu, SR Buchman, AK Gosain, RJ Havlik, TH Wang… - Face, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Many terms such as twist, compress, bend, and stretch, describe how materials behave
when subjected to mechanical stresses. Subjective adjectives to describe the property of …

Analytical study on growth-induced axisymmetric deformations and shape-control of circular hyperelastic plates

Z Li, Q Wang, P Du, C Kadapa, M Hossain… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Growth of soft material plates is commonly observed in nature. However, the relations
between growth fields and shape changes of the plate samples remain poorly understood …

[HTML][HTML] Electroactive differential growth and delayed instability in accelerated healing tissues

Y Wang, Z Li, X Chen, Y Tan, F Wang, Y Du… - Journal of the …, 2024 - Elsevier
Guided by experiments contrasting electrically accelerated recovery with natural healing,
this study formulates a model to investigate the importance of electroactive differential …

A total‐Lagrangian material point method for coupled growth and massive deformation of incompressible soft materials

Z Zhang, Y Pan, J Wang, H Zhang… - International Journal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A total‐Lagrangian material point method (TLMPM) with a mixed formulation is proposed in
this article for the mechanical analysis of incompressible soft materials coupling the mass …

Morphological instability of geometrically incompatible bilayer tubes

C Liu, Y Du, K Li, C Lü - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
Surface morphological instability, induced by geometric incompatibility, is ubiquitous in
nature and plays a pivotal role in maintaining specific biological functions in organs. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Growth of shell-like soft biological tissues under mechanical loading

F Dadgar-Rad, AN Dorostkar, M Hossain - International Journal of Non …, 2023 - Elsevier
Application of mechanical loading to soft biological tissues plays a central role in tissue
engineering. Mechanical stimuli convert into intracellular biochemical activity, referred to as …

A mechanical transition from tension to buckling underlies the jigsaw puzzle shape morphogenesis of histoblasts in the Drosophila epidermis

A Rigato, H Meng, C Chardes, A Runions… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
The polygonal shape of cells in proliferating epithelia is a result of the tensile forces of the
cytoskeletal cortex and packing geometry set by the cell cycle. In the larval Drosophila …