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More myosin-II is recruited to the furrow cortex when D. discoideum cells are flattened by agar overlay when compared to cells grown under standard conditions on the surface of a culture plate [ 18 ] . Flattening a cell by agar overlay may increase the apparent stiffness of the cell by introducing tension into the cortex from increased hydrostatic pressure.
A localized stiffness increase may define the region that is deformed during a morphological process.
As the strain rate increases, the stiffness and peak failure loads of the ligament and bone both increase [ 1 3 16 ] . Fig.
The fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is characterized by wide spread pain in the body, associated with particular tender points [ 1 2 ] . It is often accompanied by unrestorative sleep patterns, fatigue, headaches, irritable bowel and bladder syndrome, morning stiffness, paresthesias, anxiety, and depression [ 2 3 ] . The prevalence rate is about 2% in the general population, 3.9% of women ages 20-40 and 5.8% of women ages 40-60 [ 4 ] , and as high as 8% in women ages 55-64 [ 5 ] . FMS is more prevalent in women than men, in about a 3:1 ratio [ 5 ] . People who suffer from FMS have a disability index comparable to that of patients with rheumatoid arthritis [ 6 ] while disease severity was worse than Sjogren's syndrome [ 7 ] . The natural course of FMS may include some symptomatic relief [ 8 ] , but many symptoms remain essentially unchanged after 7 years of follow up [ 9 ] .
where γ is the contractile force, R f is the radius of the furrow, S c is the stiffness of the cell cortex and Θ is the angle between the tangent to the cortex at the base of the furrow and the cleavage plane (Figure 4C).
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