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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 18.
Published in final edited form as: Cell Physiol Biochem. 2012 Jul 3;30(2):395–406. doi: 10.1159/000339033

Fig. 7.

Fig. 7

(a) 2D simulation of the stress distribution in a deformable cell under shear stress (arrow) showing a compression in the transverse direction to flow. The cell modulus was 450 Pa; the flow rate was 5 μl/min (5.5 dyn/cm2). (b): Stress distribution along the y-direction (from basal to apical surface) at the center plane indicated by red dashed line in (a) at shear stresses of 1.1 (black), 5.5 (red) and 11 (green) dyn/cm2, showing an increase in compression with increased flow.