3 papers
physics.bio-ph2004
Fluids as transducers of gravity in biological systems
Juanita Lofthouse
A qualitative model is presented, suggesting gravitational information is transduced into biological systems primarily by its effect on spatially organised membrane and cytoplasmic…
physics.bio-ph2004
Spiral Phyllotaxis Pattern in an Animal Cell: A Fluid- Driven Mechanism for Red Cell Echinocytosis and Programmed Cell Death
J T Lofthouse
This paper demonstrates that the pattern of lipid spiculesthat emerge on the surface of red blood cells in the classic 'Discocyte to Echinocyte' shape change is a generative spiral…
physics.gen-ph2004
Pattern formation in biological fluids II: cell deformation in shear fields evidences convective membrane organisation
Juanita Lofthouse
The mechanical behaviour and symmetry-breaking shape deformation of red blood cells subjected to shear flows is used to demonstrate that far from being random fluids, both the memb…