Nucleation and growth of epithelial cell clusters
Abstract
Throughout many processes in tissues, large groups of cells move either in dispersed populations or in condensed populations. Very often each type of motion involves a transition between dispersed and condensed phases. Here we study a transition in cell migration as a cell population changes from sparse to dense. We observe a process that resembles homogeneous nucleation in other classical phase-segregating systems, as well as a diverging correlation length that scales with reduced cell density to the 1/2 power.
- Publication:
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4th International Symposium on Slow Dynamics in Complex Systems: Keep Going Tohoku
- Pub Date:
- February 2013
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.4794630
- Bibcode:
- 2013AIPC.1518..536S