Mechanical models of pattern and form in biological tissues: the role of stress-strain constitutive equations
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Abstract: Mechanochemical models of pattern formation in biological tissues have been used to study a variety of biomedical systems and describe the physical interactions between cells and their local surroundings. These models generally consist of a balance equation for the cell density, one for the density of the extracellular matrix (ECM), and a force-balance equation describing the mechanical equilibrium of the cell-ECM system. Assuming this system can be regarded as an isotropic linear viscoelastic material, the force-balance equation is often defined using the Kelvin-Voigt model of linear viscoelasticity to represent the stress-strain relation of the ECM. However, due to the multifaceted bio-physical nature of the ECM constituents, there are rheological aspects that cannot be effectively captured by this model and, therefore, depending on the type of biological tissue considered, other constitutive models of linear viscoelasticity may be better suited. In this work, we systematically assess the pattern formation potential of different stress-strain constitutive equations for the ECM within a mechanical model of pattern formation in biological tissues. The results obtained through linear stability analysis support the idea that constitutive equations capturing viscous flow and permanent set (Maxwell model, Jeffrey model) have a pattern formation potential much higher than the others (Kelvin-Voigt model, standard linear solid model), further confirmed by the results of our numerical simulations. Our findings suggest that further empirical work is required to acquire detailed quantitative information on the mechanical properties of components of the ECM in different biological tissues in order to furnish mechanochemical models of pattern formation with stress-strain constitutive equations for the ECM that provide a more faithful representation of the underlying tissue rheology.
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