\"Viscotaxis\" - Directed Migration of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Response to Loss Modulus Gradient
P. U. Shirke, H. Goswami, V. Kumar, D. Shah, S. Das, J. Bellare, K. V. Venkatesh, J. R. Seth, A. Majumder
This study shows that human mesenchymal stem cells migrate from high to low loss modulus in response to viscous gradients, termed 'viscotaxis', and identifies cellular traction as the mechanism.
bioRxiv · Oct 14, 2019Biophysics