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A two-component network is studied by Monte Carlo simulation to model the lipid/spectrin membrane of red blood cells. The model predicts that the shear modulus decreases rapidly with the maximum length of the model spectrin and should be in the 10^-7 J/m² range for human red blood cells. A simplified model for the isolated spectrin network shows a negative Lam\'e coefficient {λ}. Transverse fluctuations of the dual membrane are found to be fluidlike over the range of wavelengths investigated.
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