Dictyostelium cells' cytoplasm as an active viscoplastic body

European Biophysics Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 284-294

  Feneberg, W ^a   Westphal, M ^a   Sackmann, E ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dictyostelium discoideum; Magnetic tweezers; Rheology; Viscoelasticity

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BINDING; COLLOID; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DYNAMICS; ENERGY; FORCE; MAGNETISM; MICROTUBULE; MOTION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLASTICITY; STRESS; VELOCITY; VISCOELASTICITY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; BIOPHYSICS; CYTOPLASM; DICTYOSTELIUM; ELASTICITY; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; LATEX; MAGNETICS; MUTATION; MYOSIN TYPE II; PARTICLE SIZE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

ARRHENIUS; DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 0034890286     PISSN: 01757571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002490100135     Document Type: Article

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