Actively contracting bundles of polar filaments

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1778-1781

  Kruse, K ^a,b   Julicher F ^a  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINETRIPHOSPHATE; CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION; CYTOLOGY; HYDROLYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RHEOLOGY; SHRINKAGE; STRESS ANALYSIS; TENSILE STRESS;

POLAR FILAMENTS;

NATURAL FIBERS;

ACTIN; MYOSIN;

ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOPHYSICS; CELL FUNCTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ACTINS; ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; BIOPHYSICS; CELL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MYOSINS;

EID: 0034238120     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1778     Document Type: Article

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