Amoeboid Motion in Confined Geometry Hao Wu, M
Amoeboid motion in confined geometry Hao Wu, M. Thiébaud, W.-F. Hu, A. Farutin, S. Rafaï, M.-C. Lai, P. Peyla, C. Misbah To cite this version: Hao Wu, M. Thiébaud, W.-F. Hu, A. Farutin, S. Rafaï, et al.. Amoeboid motion in confined geometry. Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, American Physical Society, 2015, 92 (5), 10.1103/PhysRevE.92.050701. hal-01230092 HAL Id: hal-01230092 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01230092 Submitted on 17 Nov 2015 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Amoeboid motion in confined geometry H. Wu,1,2, ∗ M. Thi´ebaud,1,2, ∗ W.-F. Hu,3 A. Farutin,1, 2 S. Rafa¨ı,1,2, † M.-C. Lai,3 P. Peyla,1, 2 and C. Misbah1, 2 1Univ. Grenoble Alpes, LIPHY, F-38000 Grenoble, France 2CNRS, LIPHY, F-38000 Grenoble, France 3Department of Applied Mathematics, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 Ta Hsueh Road, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan Many eukaryotic cells undergo frequent shape changes (described as amoeboid motion) that enable them to move forward. We investigate the effect of confinement on a minimal model of amoeboid swimmer.
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