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On Free Boundary Problems and Amoeboid Motion

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Biomechanics of Active Movement and Division of Cells

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The actin cytoskeleton of amoeboid cells can be regarded as a composite material composed of an aqueous solvent and a network of filamentous polymers. Accordingly, a family of models of the cytoskeletal motility of amoeboid cells can be formulated using continuum mixture theory as a basic language. Our aim is to elucidate the structure of such models and to give some examples of applications to representative problems of cytoskeletal dynamics and amoeboid motion.

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Dembo, M. (1994). On Free Boundary Problems and Amoeboid Motion. In: Akkaş, N. (eds) Biomechanics of Active Movement and Division of Cells. NATO ASI Series, vol 84. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78975-5_7

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