Mesoscopic model for filament orientation in growing actin networks: The role of obstacle geometry

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Weichsel, Julian ^a,b   Schwarz, Ulrich S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM EQUATION; ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; FILAMENT ORIENTATION; LOCAL ORIENTATIONS; MOLECULAR MACHINERY; ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTIONS; STEADY STATE ORIENTATIONS; UNIVERSAL MECHANISMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VIRUSES; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; MACHINERY; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PHASE DIAGRAMS;

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EID: 84875423106     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/3/035006     Document Type: Article

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