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A Chapman-Enskog expansion is used to derive hyperbolic models for chemosensitive movements as a hydrodynamic limit of a velocity-jump process. On the one hand, it connects parabolic and hyperbolic chemotaxis models since the former arise as diffusion limits of a similar velocity-jump process. On the other hand, this approach provides a unified framework which includes previous models obtained by ad hoc methods or methods of moments. Numerical simulations are also performed and are motivated by recent experiments with human endothelial cells on matrigel. Their movements lead to the formation of networks that are interpreted as the beginning of a vasculature. These structures cannot be explained by parabolic models but are recovered by numerical experiments on hyperbolic models. Our kinetic model suggests that some kind of local interactions might be enough to explain them.
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Acknowledgement The authors thank M. Mirshahi (INSERM E355 - Faculté de Médecine de Paris VI) for fruitful discussions and providing experimental data. Helpful discussions on numerical and modeling issues with A. Gamba and M. Lemou are gratefully acknowledged. This work was also partially supported by the European network HYKE, funded by the EC as contract HPRN-CT-2002-00282.
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Filbet, F., Laurençot, P. & Perthame, B. Derivation of hyperbolic models for chemosensitive movement. J. Math. Biol. 50, 189–207 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00285-004-0286-2
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