Sickle cell biomechanics

Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue , 2010, Pages 345-367

  Barabino, Gilda A ^a   Platt, Manu O ^a   Kaul, Dhananjay K ^b  

^a Wallace H Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

deformability; hemoglobin; red blood cells; rheology; shear stress; viscosity

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; CELL TYPES; DEFORMABILITY; DEOXYGENATED CONDITIONS; DISEASE STATE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RED BLOOD CELL; SICKLE CELL; SICKLE CELL DISEASE; UNDERLYING CAUSE;

BIOMECHANICS; CELLS; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN OXYGEN SATURATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR STRESS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; VISCOSITY;

BLOOD;

2,2 BIS(4 FLUOROPHENYL) 2 PHENYLACETAMIDE; ANDROGEN; CARBON MONOXIDE; CLOTRIMAZOLE; CYANIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN F; HEMOGLOBIN S;

BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; MICROCIRCULATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; REVIEW; SHEAR STRESS; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; STENOSIS; VISCOSITY; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CAT; DISEASE MODEL; ERYTHROCYTE DISORDER; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; HEMODYNAMICS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; RAT; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION;

ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CATS; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; ERYTHROCYTES, ABNORMAL; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOGLOBIN, SICKLE; HUMANS; RABBITS; RATS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 77955626789     PISSN: 15239829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-bioeng-070909-105339     Document Type: Review

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