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Biomechanics of Active Movement and Deformation of Cells pp 155–183Cite as

Thermodynamics and Mechanics of Active Cell Motions

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Thermodynamics and mechanics of active cell motion is a relatively recent area of research which is experiencing a transition that is brought by the rapid development of the field during the past decade. Roughly speaking, the transition is from collection of biological information from experiments and postulation of physical mechanisms through verbal arguements to quantitation of working hypotheses via mathematical equations and numerical computation of physical parameters. In this paper various biophysical and biochemical bases of active cell motions are briefly reviewed and some particular models are described.

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Skalak, R., Zhu, C. (1990). Thermodynamics and Mechanics of Active Cell Motions. In: Akkaş, N. (eds) Biomechanics of Active Movement and Deformation of Cells. NATO ASI Series, vol 42. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83631-2_5

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