Effect of the scaffold microenvironment on cell polarizability and capacitance determined by probabilistic computations

Biomedical Materials
Beatriz A Pazmino BetancourtCarl G Simon

Abstract

In living systems, it is frequently stated that form follows function by virtue of evolutionary pressures on organism development, but in the study of how functions emerge at the cellular level, function often follows form. We study this chicken versus egg problem of emergent structure-property relationships in living systems in the context of primary human bone marrow stromal cells cultured in a variety of microenvironments that have been shown to cause distinct patterns of cell function and differentiation. Through analysis of a publicly available catalog of three-dimensional (3D) cell shape data, we introduce a family of metrics to characterize the 'form' of the cell populations that emerge from a variety of diverse microenvironments. In particular, measures of form are considered that are expected to have direct significance for cell function, signaling and metabolic activity: dimensionality, polarizability and capacitance. Dimensionality was assessed by an intrinsic measure of cell shape obtained from the polarizability tensor. This tensor defines ellipsoids for arbitrary cell shapes and the thinnest dimension of these ellipsoids, P 1, defines a reference minimal scale for cells cultured in a 3D microenvironment. Polarizab...Continue Reading

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