A Two-Dimensional Model of the Colonic Crypt Accounting for the Role of the Basement Membrane and Pericryptal Fibroblast Sheath
Figure 4
The evolution of the epithelial layer, where the -coordinates of each epithelial cell are plotted after 60 hours, and the boundaries between the zero and non-zero spontaneous curvature regions are indicated by the dashed lines.
(a) , increasing
(indicated by the arrow); (b)
for increasing
(indicated by the arrows); (c) the total number of epithelial cells in the monolayer for
and increasing
.