Hydrodynamic property of the cytoplasm is sufficient to mediate cytoplasmic streaming in the Caenorhabiditis elegans embryo

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 29, 2011, Pages 11900-11905

  Niwayama, Ritsuya ^a,b   Shinohara, Kyosuke ^c   Kimura, Akatsuki ^a,b  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Algae; Cell polarity; Fluid dynamics; Newtonian fluid; Particle method

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTION; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EMBRYO; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW RATE; HYDRODYNAMICS; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MOVING PARTICLE SEMIIMPLICIT METHOD; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOPLASM; CYTOPLASMIC STREAMING; DNA PRIMERS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; HYDRODYNAMICS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROTUBULES; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; RHEOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ALGAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 79961065565     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1101853108     Document Type: Article

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