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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Apr 27.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Biomed Eng. 2007 Nov 16;36(2):298–307. doi: 10.1007/s10439-007-9406-7

Figure 7. Fluid stress distributions on the surface of a leukocyte with pseudopod pointing away from the direction of flow.

Figure 7

The normalized resultant stress (A), shear stress (B) and the normal stress (C) distributions are shown for a single migrating leukocyte with a large pseudopod pointing away from the flow direction. The stresses are displayed as a multiple of the applied wall shear. The top region is subjected to significantly higher fluid resultant and shear stresses compared to the rest of the cell membrane.