Physical and mathematical axially symmetrical model of adsorptional endocytosis. I. Equations determining the cell shape

  • E. A. Gordienko Institute for Problems of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine NAS of Ukraine
Keywords: endocytosis, physical and mathematical model, free energy, deformation, membrane

Abstract

Based on the principle of a minimum of free energy of cell membrane deformation, the authors have obtained the differential equations that describe the change in cell shape during endocytosis of sphere-shaped particles by the cell in an axially symmetrical case.

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Author Biography

E. A. Gordienko, Institute for Problems of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine NAS of Ukraine

23 Pereyaslavskaya St., Kharkov, 61015, Ukraine

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2002-06-06
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Gordienko, E. A. (2002). Physical and mathematical axially symmetrical model of adsorptional endocytosis. I. Equations determining the cell shape. Biophysical Bulletin, 1(10), 58-61. Retrieved from https://periodicals.karazin.ua/biophysvisnyk/article/view/18414