Cellular Potts Model

Introduction Larvae of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans aggregate into clusters of several hundred moving individuals when starved during their first larval stage (see video below). Avery et al. proposed that starved larvae produce and respond chemotactically to two diffusible chemical signals, a short-range attractant and a longer range repellent.

Introduction Collective motion of human breast cancer cells of the cell line MDA-MB-231 was studied by Lee et al. for individual crawling cells, cell doublets, cell quadruplets and for confluent populations on a two-dimensional substrate.

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Membrane pattern allows anisotropic release of substance from cell Introduction This example serves to demonstrate a multiscale model of a cell secreting a substance/molecule and propelling away from the secreted substance.

Changing the adhesion parameters CPM/Interaction/Contact value during simulation runtime Introduction This example model demonstrates the use of variable adhesion values in the CPM/Interaction/Contact/HomophilicAdhesion plugin. Please also see the built-in docu at MorpheuML/CPM/Interaction/Contact/HomophilicAdhesion.

Cells' consumption of cytokine concentration Introduction This example serves to demonstrate the implementation of cells consuming a substrate field, e.g. cytokine. Please also see the built-in docu at MorpheuML/Global/Field and Global/System/DiffEqn.

Multiscale simulation of EMT by minimal signaling circuit Introduction We model epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) by first assembling an ODE model for intracellular Yes-associated protein (YAP) signalling and then embedding this single cell model within individual cells in a multiscale simulation.

Simulated sheet morphology for YAP knockdown (KD) and overexpression (OE) Introduction We model epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) by first assembling an ODE model for intracellular Yes-associated protein (YAP) signalling and then embedding this single cell model within individual cells in a multiscale simulation.

Multiple models in epithelial-mesenchymal transitions (EMT) Introduction We model epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) by first assembling an ODE model for intracellular Yes-associated protein (YAP) signalling and then embedding this single cell model within individual cells in a multiscale simulation.

Multiscale model of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) with intracellular TGFβ signaling circuit Introduction The growth factor TGFβ regulates the snail-zeb intracellular circuit that affects EMT by controlling the levels of E and N-cadherin expression.