Human Red Blood Cell Shape and Volume are Changed by Physiological levels of Hydrostatic Pressure

Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 321-330

  Barshtein, Gregory ^a   Yedgar, Saul ^a   Bergelson, Lev ^b   Gratton, Enrico ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVING; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; ERYTHROCYTE SHAPE; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; HYPERBARISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CELL SIZE; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING;

EID: 0030432948     PISSN: 07926855     EISSN: 21910286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JBCPP.1996.7.4.321     Document Type: Article

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