A quantitative interspecies comparison of the respiratory mucociliary clearance mechanism. [PDF]
Eur Biophys J, 2022 Collectively coordinated ciliary activity propels the airway mucus, which lines the luminal surface of the vertebrate respiratory system, in cranial direction. Our contemporary understanding on how the quantitative characteristics of the metachronal wave
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THE METACHRONAL WAVE OF LATERAL CILIA OF MYTILUS EDULIS [PDF]
The Journal of Cell Biology, 1972 The form of beat of cilia and the structure of the metachronal wave on the lateral gill epithelium of Mytulus edulis have been studied on living material by interference-contrast microscopy and stroboscopic illumination, and compared with the same ...
E. Aiello, M. Sleigh
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Longitudinal to Transverse Metachronal Wave Transitions in an In Vitro Model of Ciliated Bronchial Epithelium [PDF]
Physical Review Letters, 2022 Myriads of cilia beat on ciliated epithelia, which are ubiquitous in life. When ciliary beats are synchronized, metachronal waves emerge, whose direction of propagation depends on the living system in an unexplained way. We show on a reconstructed human bronchial epithelium in-vitro that the direction of propagation is determined by the ability of ...
Olivier Mesdjian +6 more
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Cilia-assisted hydromagnetic pumping of biorheological couple stress fluids [PDF]
Propulsion and Power Research, 2019 A theoretical study is conducted for magnetohydrodynamic pumping of electro-conductive couple stress physiological liquids (e.g. blood) through a two-dimensional ciliated channel. A geometric model is employed for the cilia which are distributed at equal
K. Ramesh, D. Tripathi, O. Anwar Bég
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Multi-ciliated microswimmers-metachronal coordination and helical swimming. [PDF]
Eur Phys J E Soft Matter, 2021 The dynamics and motion of multi-ciliated microswimmers with a spherical body and a small number N (with 5 < N < 60) of cilia with length comparable to the body radius, is investigated by mesoscale hydrodynamics simulations. A metachronal wave is imposed for the cilia beat, for which the wave vector has both a longitudinal and a latitudinal component ...
Rode S, Elgeti J, Gompper G.
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Role of cilia activity and surrounding viscous fluid on properties of metachronal waves [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Large groups of active cilia collectively beat in a fluid medium as metachronal waves, essential for some microorganisms motility and for flow generation in mucociliary clearance. Several models can predict the emergence of metachronal waves, but what controls the properties of metachronal waves is still unclear.
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Mathematical modelling of pressure-driven micropolar biological flow due to metachronal wave propulsion of beating cilia. [PDF]
Mathematical Biosciences, 2018 In this paper, we present an analytical study of pressure-driven flow of micropolar non-Newtonian physiological fluids through a channel comprising two parallel oscillating walls.
N. Akbar +3 more
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Metachronal Motion of Biological and Artificial Cilia. [PDF]
Biomimetics (Basel)Cilia are slender, hair-like cell protrusions that are present ubiquitously in the natural world. They perform essential functions, such as generating fluid flow, propulsion, and feeding, in organisms ranging from protozoa to the human body.
Cui Z, Wang Y, den Toonder JMJ.
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Spontaneous Synchronization of Beating Cilia: An Experimental Proof Using Vision-Based Control [PDF]
Fluids, 2018 This article investigates the formation of spontaneous coordination in a row of flexible 2D flaps (artificial cilia) in a chamber filled with a high viscous liquid (Re = 0.12). Each flap is driven individually to oscillate by a rotary motor with the root
Mohamed Elshalakani +1 more
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Bilateral Asymmetry shown by the Metachronal Waves in Protochordate Gill Slits [PDF]
Nature, 1949 MULLER1 stated that metachronal waves travelled round the gill slits of Amphioxus "am vordern Rande aufwarts, am hinten abwarts" ; but he figured them moving in the opposite direction on the left side of the pharynx. Franz2 did not clear up the contradiction, though he, too, noted and figured the metachronal waves.
E. W. Jones
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