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Effect of ionic strength and seawater cations on hagfish slime formation

The defensive slime of hagfish consists of a polyanionic mucin hydrogel that synergistically interacts with a fiber network forming a coherent and elastic hydrogel in high ionic strength seawater. In seawater, the slime deploys in less than a second entrapping large quantities of water by a well-tim...

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Autores principales: Böni, L. J., Zurflüh, R., Baumgartner, M. E., Windhab, E. J., Fischer, P., Kuster, S., Rühs, P. A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6026207/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29959378
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-27975-0