Naslov
Morphological properties of the epithelial tissue

Autori
Lovrić, Jakov ; Kaliman, Sara ; Smith, Ana-Sunčana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Animal Vegetal Mineral / - , 2016, 144-145

Skup
Animal, Vegeta, Mineral?, Boden Research Conference

Mjesto i datum
Yallingup, Australija, 19.09.2016. - 23.09.2016

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
epithelial tissue ; morphological measures ; packing ; ellipses

Sažetak
Knowing the morphology of an epithelial tissue is important due to understanding proceses like growth and development of the tissue, wound healing and progression of the cancer. We study the structure of the MDCK II epithelial cells in circular colonies. Cell nuclei can be approximated with ellipses and the Voronoi tesselation generated by those ellipses coincides well with the cell membranes. We compare the tissue cells to the Voronoi cells generated by randomly packed ellipses obtained from the cell nuclei. The comparison is done by studying the probability distributions of chosen morphological measures calculated from the cells. We find that randomly packed ellipses reproduce the morphology of the tissue well at the low cell density. At high cell density we observe more regular structure of the tissue an we see the deviations of the random model from the cell tissue.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Matematika, Fizika, Biologija, Interdisciplinarne prirodne znanosti

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