Cilia internal mechanism and metachronal coordination as the result of hydrodynamical coupling

DOI10.1073/pnas.94.12.6001zbMath0897.92009WikidataQ36176329 ScholiaQ36176329MaRDI QIDQ4350895

Shay Gueron, Nadav Liron, J. J. Blum, Konstantin Levit-Gurevich

Publication date: 24 September 1998

Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.94.12.6001

zbMATH Keywords

wave pattern; metachronism; ciliary motion; hydrodynamical interactions; arrays of cilia; multicilia configurations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

92C05: Biophysics

92C30: Physiology (general)

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