Institute of Fundamental Technological Research

The model we consider treats the cell as a viscoelastic medium lling one of two kinds of thin domains (\shapes" of cells): the thin slab being a caricature of a tissue and the thin circular cylinder mimicking a long cell. This enables us to simplify the system of mechano-chemical equations. We construct abundant classes of explicit, but approximate, formulae for heteroclinic solutions to these equations.

calcium waves, mechano-chemical coupling, thin domains

We study traveling wave solutions to a system of four non-linear partial differential equations, which arise in a tissue interaction model for skin morphogenesis. Under the assumption that the strength of attachment of the epidermis to the basal lamina is sufficiently large, we prove the existence and uniqueness (up to a translation) of traveling wave solutions connecting two stationary states of the system with the dermis and epidermis cell densities being positive. We discuss the problem of the minimal wave speed.

skin morphogenesis, heteroclinic solutions, implicit function theorem

The paper is devoted to a stochastic process introduced in the recent paper by Lipniacki et al. [T. Lipniacki, P. Paszek, A. Marciniak-Czochra, A.R. Brasier, M. Kimmel, Transcriptional stochasticity in gene expression, J. Theor. Biol. 238 (2006) 348–367] in modelling gene expression in eukaryotes. Starting from the full generator of the process we show that its distributions satisfy a (Fokker–Planck-type) system of partial differential equations. Then, we construct a c0 Markov semigroup in L1 space corresponding to this system. The main result of the paper is asymptotic stability of the involved semigroup in the set of densities.

Piece-wise deterministic process, Stochastic gene expression, Semigroups of operators, Feller semigroups, Dual semigroups, Markov semigroups, Asymptotic stability