Abstract:In living eukaryotic cells a crosslinked network of polymer fibers, the cytoskeleton, endows the cells with structural integrity and mechanical stability and flexibility. To understand the mechanisms that are at the base of these functions, it is important to know in what way the microstructure and the mechanical behavior of the cytoskeleton change as a function of the type and the density of crosslinking molecules. To address this issue, we have developed a new modeling approach based on the discretization of… Show more
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