ArticleNature physics2018
Geometric constraints during epithelial jamming.
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- Unjamming Transition as a Paradigm for Biomechanical Control of Cancer Metastasis.Cytoskeleton (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2025Review
- Epithelial Layer Fluidization by Curvature-Induced Unjamming.Physical review letters · 2025Article
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Abstract
As an injury heals, an embryo develops, or a carcinoma spreads, epithelial cells systematically change their shape. In each of these processes cell shape is studied extensively whereas variability of shape from cell-to-cell is regarded most often as biological noise. But where do cell shape and its variability come from? Here we report that cell shape and shape variability are mutually constrained through a relationship that is purely geometrical. That relationship is shown to govern processes as diverse as maturation of the pseudostratified bronchial epithelial layer cultured from non-asthmatic or asthmatic donors, and formation of the ventral furrow in the
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