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The cytoskeleton, the molecular scaffolding of eucaryotic cells, enables a cell to adopt a variety of shapes and to carry out various functions including motility. It consists of numerous proteins and actin filaments which act in concert in response to internal and/or external stimuli and may exhibit physical properties similar to a liquid or a solid at different times and at different locations in the cellular cytoplasm.
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Civelekoglu, G., Geigant, E. (1997). Models for the Formation of Oriented F-actin Structures in the Cytoskeleton. In: Alt, W., Deutsch, A., Dunn, G.A. (eds) Dynamics of Cell and Tissue Motion. Mathematics and Biosciences in Interaction. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8916-2_12
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