 A screenshot from the video, depicting a motor protein moving a vesicle by crawling along a microtubule. |
The Inner Life of the Cell is an 8.5-minute 3D computer graphics animation illustrating the molecular mechanisms that occur when a white blood cell in the blood vessels of the human body is activated by inflammation (Leukocyte extravasation). It shows how a white blood cell rolls along the inner surface of the capillary, flattens out, and squeezes through the cells of the capillary wall to the site of inflammation where it contributes to the immune reaction.[1]
- ^ "Lives of a Cell, the 3-D Version". Wired News. March 14, 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-17.