Computer simulation of cellular movements: cell-sorting, cellular migration through a mass of cells and contact inhibition.

Abstract The motility rules for cellular movement proposed earlier by Goel & Rogers for engulfment of two or more intact embryonic tissues have been used to simulate on a computer the phenomena of cell-sorting, migration of individual cells through a mass of cells and contact inhibition of overlapping. These simulations in the most part are found to be consistent with the observations with real cells.

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