File:Visualization-and-3D-Reconstruction-of-Flame-Cells-of-Taenia-solium-(Cestoda)-pone.0014754.s008.ogv

English: Animation of the hypothetical function of flame cells. Using as a template the images from the figures 2, 4–7, animations of movies S3 and S4 and videomicroscopy of the movie S1, they were combined for performing a 3D animation by 3D Max software. In the animation, the contraction and expansion of the F-actin clasp and the flickering of the ciliary tuft is responsible for routing the contents of the vesicles (an orange globular particle) to the lumen of the protonephridial ducts. These contents could be come from invaginations at the membranes of the soma bodies or from the interconnections of other cells, the vesicles go through the cytoplasm of the cell bodies and they deliver their contents to the level of the actin clasp (MPEG 3.87 MB).