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ArticlePhysical review letters2021

Fluid Mechanics of Mosaic Ciliated Tissues.

Francesco Boselli, Jerome Jullien, Eric Lauga, Raymond E Goldstein

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Article in Physical review letters, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Cilia dynamics create a dynamic barrier to penetration of the periciliary layer in human airway epithelia.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  6. Motile Living Biobots Self-Construct from Adult Human Somatic Progenitor Seed Cells.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024
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  7. Nonreciprocal interactions give rise to fast cilium synchronization in finite systems.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  8. Spontaneous phase coordination and fluid pumping in model ciliary carpets.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Francesco BoselliDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0WA, United Kingdom.
Jerome JullienWellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN, United Kingdom.
Eric LaugaDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0WA, United Kingdom.
Raymond E GoldsteinDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0WA, United Kingdom.

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/P000479/1Wellcome Trust 207510Wellcome Trust 207510/Z/17/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In tissues as diverse as amphibian skin and the human airway, the cilia that propel fluid are grouped in sparsely distributed multiciliated cells (MCCs). We investigate fluid transport in this "mosaic" architecture, with emphasis on the trade-offs that may have been responsible for its evolutionary selection. Live imaging of MCCs in embryos of the frog Xenopus laevis shows that cilia bundles behave as active vortices that produce a flow field accurately represented by a local force applied to the fluid. A coarse-grained model that self-consistently couples bundles to the ambient flow reveals that hydrodynamic interactions between MCCs limit their rate of work so that they best shear the tissue at a finite but low area coverage, a result that mirrors findings for other sparse distributions such as cell receptors and leaf stomata.

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HydrodynamicsAnimalsCiliaHumansXenopus laevis

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PMID34797132
PMCPMC7616087

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