News Finding: The videos, shown above, show that the normal cells are nearly pentagon-shaped and are jammed--they hardly move at all--while the asthmatic cells become more spindle shaped and are unjammed--they constantly move and swirl.
Paper Finding: When P was 30 cm H 2 O (red filled circles), the overlap decreased to 0.17. d, The four-point susceptibility
News Context: But the study showed that, in asthma, the opposite is true. The videos, shown above, show that the normal cells are nearly pentagon-shaped and are jammed--they hardly move at all--while the asthmatic cells become more spindle shaped and are unjammed--they constantly move and swirl. As the cells moved, their push-pull motion caused movement in the gel as well.
Paper Context: c, When P was less than 20 cm H 2 O, the relative overlap of each cell with its initial position was nearly perfect for time intervals ( t) of less than 144 min, as quantified by the ensemble average, Q( t) , close to 1. When P was 30 cm H 2 O (red filled circles), the overlap decreased to 0.17. d, The four-point susceptibility When movements are cooperative, χ 4 ( t) exhibits a peak whose position corresponds roughly to pack lifetime, and whose magnitude corresponds roughly to pack size.