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Remarkably, mammalian sperm maintain a substantive proportion of their progressive swimming speed within highly viscous fluids, including those of the female reproductive tract. Here, we analyse the digital microscopy of a human sperm swimming in a highly viscous, weakly elastic mucus analogue. We exploit principal component analysis to simplify its flagellar beat pattern, from which boundary element calculations are used to determine the time-dependent flow field around the sperm cell. The s...
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- 10.1016/j.jtbi.2018.02.013
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- Elsevier Publisher's website
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- Journal of Theoretical Biology Journal website
- Volume:
- 446
- Pages:
- 1-10
- Publication date:
- 2018-02-17
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-02-13
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0022-5193
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pubs:825590
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uri:f2bb9d8f-6665-46b6-8c57-a0b9ccbd8f23
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uuid:f2bb9d8f-6665-46b6-8c57-a0b9ccbd8f23
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- Ishimoto et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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Copyright © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
This is an open access article under the CC BY license. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Human sperm swimming in a high viscosity mucus analogue
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