Scaling physiologic function from cell to tissue in asthma, cancer, and development

Yasha Sharma, Lior Atia, Christalyn Sims Rhodes, Stephen J. DeCamp, Jennifer Mitchel, Jeffrey J. Fredberg

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Abstract

The formation of an integrated tissue from individual cells depends on the properties of the individual cells as well as the interaction of many cells acting as a collective. Three fundamental physiological processes govern the collective scaling from the individual cell to a working tissue: cell sorting, tissue assembly, and collective cellular migration. Mechanistically, cell sorting is governed by differential adhesion, whereas tissue assembly is controlled by the epithelial-tomesenchymal transition and its inverse, the mesenchymal-toepithelial transition. The mechanism driving collective cellular migration, however, is not clear. To fill that gap, here we consider cell jamming and unjamming, and their role in collective cellular migration.

Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)S35-S37
JournalAnnals of the American Thoracic Society
Volume15
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Feb 2018
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Collective
  • Epithelium
  • Jamming
  • Migration

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

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