Flow-induced clustering and alignment of vesicles and red blood cells in microcapillaries

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 6039-6043

  McWhirter, J Liam ^a   Noguchi, Hiroshi ^a,b   Gompper, Gerhard ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Erythrocyte shapes; Membrane elasticity; mesoscale hydrodynamics simulations; Microcirculation; Microfluidics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CELL STIMULATION; CELL VACUOLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; ERYTHROCYTE SHAPE; FLOW RATE; HEMATOCRIT; HYDRODYNAMICS; MICROCAPSULE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROFLUIDICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CAPILLARY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; ERYTHROCYTE; FLOW KINETICS; INDICATOR DILUTION CURVE; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; PRESSURE;

LIPOSOME;

CAPILLARIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMATOCRIT; INDICATOR DILUTION TECHNIQUES; LIPOSOMES; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; PRESSURE; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 65549093598     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0811484106     Document Type: Article

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