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AKB: Biologische Physik

AKB 100: Poster Session I

AKB 100.9: Poster

Saturday, March 5, 2005, 16:45–18:45, Poster TU D

Mechanical Properties and Shape Instabilities of Axons — •Pramod Pullarkat — Experimentalphysik-I, Universität Bayreuth, D95440-Bayreuth, Gramany

We present studies on the mechanical properties of axons using a newly developed flow-chamber technique. The role of various cytoskeletal components and their visco-elastic contributions to the mechanical properties of the axon will be presented. The cytoskeleton also plays an important role in certain shape instabilities observed in axons under abnormal conditions, both in-vivo as well as in-vitro. We have studied one such instability which is induced by osmotic-shocks. The remarkable dynamics of this instability will be discussed.