A biophysical model of phagocytic cup dynamics: The effect of membrane tension

• Peyman Shadmani ,

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

  * E-mail: p.shadmani@exeter.ac.uk

  Affiliations Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2038-3611

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• Behzad Mehrafrooz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Computation & Theory of Soft Materials, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3788-8918

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• Abbas Montazeri,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  Affiliations Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, School of Nano-Science, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Tehran, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4356-7800

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• David M. Richards †

  † Deceased.

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6255-8761

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