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Fingering instabilities in tissue invasion: an active fluid model

Metastatic tumours often invade healthy neighbouring tissues by forming multicellular finger-like protrusions emerging from the cancer mass. To understand the mechanical context behind this phenomenon, we here develop a minimalist fluid model of a self-propelled, growing biological tissue. The theor...

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Autores principales: Bogdan, Michał J., Savin, Thierry
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6304124/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30662758
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.181579