Representation of a Three-Dimensional Epithelial Structure as a Cell Regulatory Network in a Drozophila Eye Model
Analysis of the spatial arrangement of the Drosophila retina has shown that a structure of cell layers can be represented by three-dimensional cell lattices, they resemble a stack. Such lattices simulate the topology of cell layers and are a new subject of histology. The proposed approach to study these lattices is to perform synthesis of a series of models of the spatial arrangement of tissues, compare biological tissue sections and model sections and choose the one that has the most natural structure. This approach greatly eases the reconstruction and opens the way for the development of the computational three-dimensional histology.