Inhibitory circuit motifs in Drosophila larvae generate motor program diversity and variability. [PDF]
PLoS BiolHow do neural networks generate and regulate diversity and variability in motor outputs with finite cellular components? Here we examine this problem by exploring the role that inhibitory neuron motifs play in generating mixtures of motor programs in the
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Entropic analysis of cilia-modulated slip flow of trimetallic nanofluid through electroosmotic corrugated pump in the presence of inclined magnetic field. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2023 An incredible eradication of thermal indulgence is required to enhance the flow and heat transfer enhancement in micro/nanofluidic devices. In addition, the rapid transport and instantaneous mixing of colloidal suspensions of metallic particles at ...
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Mathematics, 2023 The spontaneous movement of natural motile cilia in the form of metachronal waves is responsible for fluid transport. These cilia, in particular, play important roles in locomotion, feeding, liquid pumping, and cell delivery.
Muhammad Mubashir Bhatti +3 more
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Metachronal motion of artificial magnetic cilia [PDF]
Soft Matter, 2018,14, 3689-3693, 2018 Organisms use hair-like cilia that beat in a metachronal fashion to actively transport fluid and suspended particles. Metachronal motion emerges due to a phase difference between beating cycles of neighboring cilia and appears as traveling waves propagating along ciliary carpet.
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A Numerical Study of Metachronal Propulsion at Low to Intermediate Reynolds Numbers
Fluids, 2020 Inspired by the forward swimming of long-tailed crustaceans, we study an underwater propulsion mechanism for a swimming body with multiple rigid paddles attached underneath undergoing cycles of power and return strokes with a constant phase-difference ...
Shawtaroh Granzier-Nakajima +2 more
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Swimming ability and flagellar motility of sperm packets of the volvocine green alga Pleodorina starrii. [PDF]
PLoS OneEukaryotic flagella collectively form metachronal waves that facilitate the ability to cause flow or swim. Among such flagellated and planktonic swimmers, large volvocine genera such as Eudorina, Pleodorina and Volvox form bundles of small male gametes ...
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Effect of Cilia Orientation in Metachronal Transport of Microparticles [PDF]
, 2017 A biomimetic approach is used to generate a directed transversal transportation of micron-sized particles in liquids based on the principle of cilia-type arrays in coordinated motion.
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Fractional Burgers Fluid Flow Due to Metachronal Ciliary Motion in an Inclined Tube
Frontiers in Physiology, 2019 Cilia-induced flow of fractional Burgers fluid is studied in an inclined tube for both symplectic and antiplectic wave patterns. The solution of the problem is persued under the long wave length limitation.
Amer Bilal Mann +3 more
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Bioinspired cilia arrays with programmable nonreciprocal motion and metachronal coordination. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2020 Coordinated nonreciprocal dynamics in biological cilia is essential to many living systems, where the emergentmetachronal waves of cilia have been hypothesized to enhance net fluid flows at low Reynolds numbers (Re).
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Pneumatically actuated biomimetic particle transporter [PDF]
, 2014 To prevent the adhesion of particles at surfaces by transporting them along the surface, a new type of pneumatically actuated particle transporter is introduced.
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