Cilia waves (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Cilia waves

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To study the movement of cilia, Louis Woodhams and Phil Bayly’s team built a model that was an approximation of the structure of the flagellar axoneme, the bundle of microtubules that make up the central core of a cilium. This video shows animation of a seven-filament system with parameters.

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Louis Woodhams

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