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Article Dans Une Revue Soft Matter Année : 2013

Detachment and fracture of cellular aggregates

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The dynamics of cellular adhesion and deadhesion, which play key roles in many cellular processes, have most often been studied at the scale of single bonds or single cells. However, multicellular adhesion and deadhesion are also central processes in tissue mechanics, morphogenesis, and pathophysiology, where collective tissue phenomena may introduce additional effects that are absent at the single-cell level. In this paper we present experiments on the adhesion of cellular aggregates and a laboratory model system to study tissue mechanics. We introduce a technique to measure the forces and energies involved in the detachment of an aggregate from a substrate (which can be viewed as a cellular tack assay) and in the fracture between two partially fused aggregates, as a function of the adhesion time, the pulling speed, and the cadherin density at the cell surface. We develop a model based on polymer physics to interpret the observations. We identify a significant contribution to the adhesion energy of viscous dissipation mechanisms present at the tissue scale that are absent at the single-cell level, as well as a significant effect of the speed at which the separation force is applied.

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hal-01513068 , version 1 (24-04-2017)

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David Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Louise Bonnemay, Jens Elgeti, Damien Cuvelier, Françoise Brochard-Wyart, et al.. Detachment and fracture of cellular aggregates. Soft Matter, 2013, 9 (7), pp.2282-2290. ⟨10.1039/c2sm26648b⟩. ⟨hal-01513068⟩
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