Chiral flows can induce neck formation in viscoelastic surfaces

The cell cortex is an active viscoelastic self-deforming sheet at the periphery of animal cells. It constricts animal cells during cell division. For some egg cells, the actomyosin cortex was shown to exhibit counter-rotating chiral flows along the axis of division. Such chiral surface flows were sh...

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Main Authors: E M de Kinkelder, E Fischer-Friedrich, S Aland
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/acd079