Journal article
Human sperm swimming in a high viscosity mucus analogue
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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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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
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Ishimoto, K
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Supporting Program for Interaction-based Initiative Team Studies (SPIRITS
+ Kyoto University
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Funding agency for:
Ishimoto, K
Grant:
Supporting Program for Interaction-based Initiative Team Studies (SPIRITS
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Theoretical Biology Journal website
- Volume:
- 446
- Pages:
- 1-10
- Publication date:
- 2018-02-17
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-02-13
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0022-5193
- Source identifiers:
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825590
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- Local pid:
- pubs:825590
- Deposit date:
- 2018-02-21
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- Copyright holder:
- Ishimoto et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
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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/)
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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