Table 1. List of variables and their definitions used in this paper.

Subscripts		Parameters
	and cells		number of nodes (points) on the perimeter of the cell and nucleus (i.e. their membranes)
	and points		point
	anterior region of cell		force
	posterior region of cell		force of a Voigt subunit acting on
			viscosity of a Voigt subunit
			spring constant of a Voigt subunit
			position of
Superscripts			velocity of
	cell membrane		inner pressure
	cell nucleus		environmental pressure
	total of all related parameters		stop volume region
	inner cell		growth volume region
	cell-cell interactions		current volume of the cell
	cell-ECM interactions		rest volume of the cell
	external parameters		stop volume region coefficient
	mitosis process		growth volume region coefficient
	cytoskeleton		dividing force that acts on nucleus points
	nucleus cytoskeleton		dividing force that acts on membrane points
	membrane		distance separating two daughter cells
	pressure		drag coefficient of each point
	adhesion		maximum separation between two points for initiating adhesion
	elastic cell-cell or cell-ECM repulsion		minimum separation between two points for disrupting adhesion
			maximum separation between two points for elastic interaction
			distance between and the membrane surface of cell or ECM
			form factor
			total occupied area of cells
			number of cells
			cell edge density
			sum of the lengths of all internal cell boundaries plus half of the perimeter of the patch