Integrative experimental/computational approach establishes active cellular protrusion as the primary driving force of phagocytic spreading by immune cells

• Emmet A. Francis ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: eafrancis@ucdavis.edu (EAF); vheinrich@ucdavis.edu (VH)

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6070-805X

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• Volkmar Heinrich

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: eafrancis@ucdavis.edu (EAF); vheinrich@ucdavis.edu (VH)

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4932-5012

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