Shear stress gradient over endothelial cells in a curved microchannel system

Biorheology

Volumn 35, Issue 4-5, 1998, Pages 245-261

  Frame, Mary D S ^a   Chapman, Gary B ^a   Makino, Yoshia ^a   Sarelius, Ingrid H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Computational fluid dynamics; Shear gradient

Indexed keywords

MICROSPHERE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; COMPUTER; DYNAMICS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FLOW KINETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROCIRCULATION; MODEL; SHEAR STRESS; VELOCITY; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 0032429642     PISSN: 0006355X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-355X(99)80009-2     Document Type: Article

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