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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 20.
Published in final edited form as: Rep Prog Phys. 2017 Jan 27;80(3):036601. doi: 10.1088/1361-6633/aa5282

Figure 2.

Figure 2

(A) Mass conservation is related to cell boundary movement. There is a velocity field, v(x, t ), within the shaded region representing the material in consideration. The boundary of the material can move from mass fluxes at the boundary J1,2. Cells build actin filaments from actin monomers; therefore the actin network can extend and retracting according monomer fluxes. (B) For a moving cell with a flat and broad lamellipodium, there is a polymerizing actin network at the leading edge. Mass flux of actin monomers (G-actin) increases F-actin network mass and drives membrane protrusion.