Phase transition in the collective migration of tissue cells: experiment and model

Details Phase transition in the collective migration of tissue cells: experiment and model Phase transition in the collective migration of tissue cells: experiment and model

2006-11-15

arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0611045v1

Phys. Rev. E 74, 061908 (2006).

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Cell Behavior

Submitted to Physical Review E. Supplementary material available at http://angel.elte.hu/~bszabo/collectivecells/

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.74.061908

We have recorded the swarming-like collective migration of a large number of keratocytes (tissue cells obtained from the scales of goldfish) using long-term videomicroscopy. By increasing the overall density of the migrating cells, we have been able to demonstrate experimentally a kinetic phase transition from a disordered into an ordered state. Near the critical density a complex picture emerges with interacting clusters of cells moving in groups. Motivated by these experiments we have constructed a flocking model that exhibits a continuous transition to the ordered phase, while assuming only short-range interactions and no explicit information about the knowledge of the directions of motion of neighbors. Placing cells in microfabricated arenas we found spectacular whirling behavior which we could also reproduce in simulations.

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