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. 2004 Aug 19;3(2):75–84. doi: 10.1007/s10237-004-0051-x

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Local spherical coordinate system used for microstructurally motivated, phenomenological constitutive relations of a living cell. The arrow represents the orientation of an individual filament belonging to any of the three primary families of cytoskeletal filaments. The function Rk(ϕ, θ) quantifies the distribution of all such orientations