Hagfish slime and mucin flow properties and their implications for defense

Gelation of Soy Milk with Hagfish Exudate Creates a Flocculated and Fibrous Emulsion- and Particle Gel

(2016) Lukas Böni et al.   PLoS One

A CaBER computational–experimental rheological study on human sputum

(2015) S. Tabatabaei et al.   JOURNAL OF NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID MECHANICS

Fiber-Enforced Hydrogels: Hagfish Slime Stabilized with Biopolymers including κ-Carrageenan

(2015) Lukas Böcker et al.   ACS Biomaterials-Science & Engineering

Fiber-Enforced Hydrogels: Hagfish Slime Stabilized with Biopolymers including κ-Carrageenan

(2015) Lukas Böcker et al.   ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering

Instabilities and elastic recoil of the two-fluid circular hydraulic jump

(2014) Tienyi T. Hsu et al.   EXPERIMENTS IN FLUIDS

Defensive slime formation in Pacific hagfish requires Ca2+- and aquaporin-mediated swelling of released mucin vesicles

(2014) J. E. Herr et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Polymer extension flows and instabilities

(2014) A.Ya. Malkin et al.   PROGRESS IN POLYMER SCIENCE

Hagfish predatory behaviour and slime defence mechanism

(2011) Vincent Zintzen et al.   Scientific Reports

Hagfish slime threads as a biomimetic model for high performance protein fibres

(2010) Douglas S Fudge et al.   Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Non-linear viscoelasticity of hagfish slime

(2010) Randy H. Ewoldt et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NON-LINEAR MECHANICS

Deployment of hagfish slime thread skeins requires the transmission of mixing forces via mucin strands

(2010) T. M. Winegard et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Stabilization and swelling of hagfish slime mucin vesicles

(2010) J. E. Herr et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Extensional rheology of human saliva

(2010) Simon J. Haward et al.   RHEOLOGICA ACTA

From ultra-soft slime to hard  -keratins: The many lives of intermediate filaments

(2009) D. S. Fudge et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY