A trio of biological rhythms and their relevance in rhythmic mechanical stimulation of cell cultures

Dongho Kwak; Petter Angell Olsen; Anne Danielsen; Alexander Refsum Jensenius

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.867191

A trio of biological rhythms and their relevance in rhythmic mechanical stimulation of cell cultures

Front Psychol. 2022 Jul 29:13:867191. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.867191. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Dongho Kwak¹, Petter Angell Olsen^{2

3}, Anne Danielsen¹, Alexander Refsum Jensenius¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Musicology, RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
² Hybrid Technology Hub-Centre for Organ on a Chip-Technology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
³ Unit for Cell Signaling, Department of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.

Abstract

The primary aim of this article is to provide a biological rhythm model based on previous theoretical and experimental findings to promote more comprehensive studies of rhythmic mechanical stimulation of cell cultures, which relates to tissue engineering and regenerative medicine fields. Through an interdisciplinary approach where different standpoints from biology and musicology are combined, we explore some of the core rhythmic features of biological and cellular rhythmic processes and present them as a trio model that aims to afford a basic but fundamental understanding of the connections between various biological rhythms. It is vital to highlight such links since rhythmic mechanical stimulation and its effect on cell cultures are vastly underexplored even though the cellular response to mechanical stimuli (mechanotransduction) has been studied widely and relevant experimental evidence suggests mechanotransduction processes are rhythmic.

Keywords: biological rhythms; cell cultures; cellular rhythms; regenerative medicine; rhythmic mechanical stimulation; tissue engineering.