Microfluidic analysis of red blood cell deformability

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1767-1776

  Guo, Quan ^a   Duffy, Simon P ^a,b   Matthews, Kerryn ^a   Santoso, Aline T ^a   Scott, Mark D ^a   Ma, Hongshen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b KWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cellular biomechanics; Cellular deformability; Microfluidics; Red blood cell

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DEFORMATION; FORMABILITY; MICROFLUIDICS; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS;

CELLULAR BIOMECHANICS; CRITICAL PRESSURES; INDIVIDUAL VARIABILITY; MICRO-VASCULATURE; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; RED BLOOD CELL; RED BLOOD CELL DEFORMABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITIES;

BLOOD;

GLUTARALDEHYDE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DEFORMABILITY; CELL LEVEL; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FLOW KINETICS; FRICTION; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CELLULAR BIOMECHANICS; CELLULAR DEFORMABILITY; MICROFLUIDICS; RED BLOOD CELL;

BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; ERYTHROCYTES; GLUTARAL; HUMANS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; PRESSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 84900534365     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: 18732380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2014.03.038     Document Type: Article

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