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Mathieu Bottier
Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
Affiliations Eq. 13, Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale, Inserm U955, Créteil, France, Université Paris-Est, Faculté de médecine, Créteil, France, CNRS ERL 7240, Créteil, France
Marta Peña Fernández
Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Visualization
Affiliations Eq. 13, Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale, Inserm U955, Créteil, France, Université Paris-Est, Faculté de médecine, Créteil, France, CNRS ERL 7240, Créteil, France
Gabriel Pelle
Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing - review & editing
Affiliations Eq. 13, Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale, Inserm U955, Créteil, France, Université Paris-Est, Faculté de médecine, Créteil, France, CNRS ERL 7240, Créteil, France
Daniel Isabey
Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing - review & editing
Affiliations Eq. 13, Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale, Inserm U955, Créteil, France, Université Paris-Est, Faculté de médecine, Créteil, France, CNRS ERL 7240, Créteil, France
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0952-6370
Bruno Louis
Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
Affiliations Eq. 13, Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale, Inserm U955, Créteil, France, Université Paris-Est, Faculté de médecine, Créteil, France, CNRS ERL 7240, Créteil, France
James B. Grotberg
Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
Affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Marcel Filoche
Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
* E-mail: [email protected]
Affiliations Eq. 13, Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale, Inserm U955, Créteil, France, Université Paris-Est, Faculté de médecine, Créteil, France, CNRS ERL 7240, Créteil, France, Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, Université Paris Saclay, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8637-3016Abstract
Mucociliary clearance is one of the major lines of defense of the human respiratory system. The mucus layer coating the airways is constantly moved along and out of the lung by the activity of motile cilia, expelling at the same time particles trapped in it. The efficiency of the cilia motion can experimentally be assessed by measuring the velocity of micro-beads traveling through the fluid surrounding the cilia. Here...