Method for the simulation of blood platelet shape and its evolution during activation
Fig 1
(A) One-to-one comparison of experimental images of coiled platelets marginal band (reused with permissions from: Diagouraga et al. Journal of Cell Biology. 204:177–185. DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201306085) and manually-fitted overcurved circles. Overcurvature is listed near each plotted curve. (B) Examples of the overcurved circles. (C) Illustration of circular tube modeling the initial flat peripheral ring of microtubules. (D,E) Models of coiled marginal band in platelets with different overcurvature and non-zero thickness.