Mechanical Aspects of Ciliary Propulsion

摘要: Cilia and eukaryotic flagella are motile cellular organelles, usually between 5/μm 200 μm long 0.2 in diameter, used to produce relative motion a cell its liquid environment. tend occur large numbers (hundreds) on the surfaces of cells, such as Tetrahymena or epithelial cells human lung. In contrast, flagellated bear small one (Crithidia many spermatozoa) two (Chlamydomonas), but sometimes four (Trichomonas), eight (Hexamita) larger (the Hypermastigida). have same basic structure behaviour, so that avoid repetition, possible confusion with prokaryotic flagellum, which has different mode action from counterpart, this Chapter organelles will be referred collectively cilia.