Mechanical state transitions in the regulation of tissue form and function

Y Mao, SA Wickström - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2024‏ - nature.com
From embryonic development, postnatal growth and adult homeostasis to reparative and
disease states, cells and tissues undergo constant changes in genome activity, cell fate …

Mechanisms of 3D cell migration

KM Yamada, M Sixt - Nature Reviews molecular cell biology, 2019‏ - nature.com
Cell migration is essential for physiological processes as diverse as development, immune
defence and wound healing. It is also a hallmark of cancer malignancy. Thousands of …

Cell–cell adhesion and 3D matrix confinement determine jamming transitions in breast cancer invasion

O Ilina, PG Gritsenko, S Syga, J Lippoldt… - Nature cell …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Plasticity of cancer invasion and metastasis depends on the ability of cancer cells to switch
between collective and single-cell dissemination, controlled by cadherin-mediated cell–cell …

Physical models of collective cell migration

R Alert, X Trepat - Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 2020‏ - annualreviews.org
Collective cell migration is a key driver of embryonic development, wound healing, and
some types of cancer invasion. Here, we provide a physical perspective of the mechanisms …

Mechanobiology of collective cell behaviours

B Ladoux, RM Mège - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2017‏ - nature.com
The way in which cells coordinate their behaviours during various biological processes,
including morphogenesis, cancer progression and tissue remodelling, largely depends on …

Cancer cell motility: lessons from migration in confined spaces

CD Paul, P Mistriotis, K Konstantopoulos - Nature reviews cancer, 2017‏ - nature.com
Time-lapse, deep-tissue imaging made possible by advances in intravital microscopy has
demonstrated the importance of tumour cell migration through confining tracks in vivo. These …

Motility-driven glass and jamming transitions in biological tissues

D Bi, X Yang, MC Marchetti, ML Manning - Physical Review X, 2016‏ - APS
Cell motion inside dense tissues governs many biological processes, including embryonic
development and cancer metastasis, and recent experiments suggest that these tissues …

The 2020 motile active matter roadmap

G Gompper, RG Winkler, T Speck… - Journal of Physics …, 2020‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Activity and autonomous motion are fundamental in living and engineering systems. This
has stimulated the new field of'active matter'in recent years, which focuses on the physical …

Response of cells and tissues to shear stress

JA Espina, MH Cordeiro, M Milivojevic… - Journal of Cell …, 2023‏ - journals.biologists.com
Shear stress is essential for normal physiology and malignancy. Common physiological
processes–such as blood flow, particle flow in the gut, or contact between migratory cell …

In primary airway epithelial cells, the unjamming transition is distinct from the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition

JA Mitchel, A Das, MJ O'Sullivan, IT Stancil… - Nature …, 2020‏ - nature.com
The epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and the unjamming transition (UJT) each
comprises a gateway to cellular migration, plasticity and remodeling, but the extent to which …