Red blood cell phase separation in symmetric and asymmetric microchannel networks: Effect of capillary dilation and inflow velocity

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Clavica, Francesco ^a   Homsy, Alexandra ^b   Jeandupeux, Laure ^b   Obrist, Dominik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL LINE; ERYTHROCYTE; FLOW RATE; MODEL; OXYGEN SUPPLY; PERICYTE; PHASE SEPARATION; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; VASODILATATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAPILLARY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; LAB ON A CHIP; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROVASCULATURE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIG;

ANIMALS; CAPILLARIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERYTHROCYTES; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROVESSELS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; SUS SCROFA; VASODILATION;

EID: 84995906303     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep36763     Document Type: Article

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