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. 2008 Apr 11;190(12):4225–4232. doi: 10.1128/JB.00132-08

FIG. 2.

FIG. 2.

Schematic diagram of the standard solid model used to obtain the best-fit viscoelastic parameters of the cell surface. The model consists of an elastic spring with stiffness k1, which describes the instantaneous elastic deformation, in series with a parallel combination of a spring with stiffness k2 and a dashpot with viscosity η2, which describes the delayed elastic deformation.