Figure 7
From: Probabilistic Voxel-Fe model for single cell motility in 3D
ECM stiffness gradients and theoretical cell stress. A) Two different cases are simulated. The ECM stiffness varies linearly with x-coordinate in the first case and exponentially in the second one. The cell starts the simulations at the same location but surrounded by different compliant ECM depending on the gradient type. B) Cell stress depending on ECM stiffness. Note that this curve corresponds with the theoretical solution of the mechano-sensing model in one direction, that is, the stress of one single voxel completely surrounded by an elastic ECM of a specific stiffness.