Abstract
Eukaryotic cells play a crucial role in many processes in health and disease in the human body. The importance of an understanding of cell behavior from the mechanical point of view triggered the development of many computational models. In this chapter, we present recent progress in this field. We focus primarily on computational models of suspended in flow and adherent to substrate eukaryotic cells.
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Lykov, K., Pivkin, I.V. (2018). Computational Models of Eukaryotic Cells in Health and Disease. In: Andreoni, W., Yip, S. (eds) Handbook of Materials Modeling. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50257-1_68-1
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