Deformation-enhanced fluctuations in the red cell skeleton with theoretical relations to elasticity, connectivity, and spectrin unfolding

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 3178-3192

  Lee, James C M ^a   Discher, Dennis E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; GLYCOPHORIN; NANOPARTICLE; SPECTRIN;

ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CYTOSKELETON; DISSOCIATION; ELASTICITY; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; ERYTHROCYTE GHOST; FORCE; KINETICS; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOTION; PROTEIN FOLDING; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0035193296     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(01)75954-1     Document Type: Article

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