Blood rheology: key parameters, impact on blood flow, role in sickle cell disease and effects of exercise

E Nader, S Skinner, M Romana, R Fort… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Blood viscosity is an important determinant of local flow characteristics, which exhibits shear
thinning behavior: it decreases exponentially with increasing shear rates. Both hematocrit …

Red blood cells in thrombosis

JR Byrnes, AS Wolberg - Blood, The Journal of the American …, 2017 - ashpublications.org
Red blood cells (RBCs) have historically been considered passive bystanders in
thrombosis. However, clinical and epidemiological studies have associated quantitative and …

Physical phenotype of blood cells is altered in COVID-19

M Kubánková, B Hohberger, J Hoffmanns, J Fürst… - Biophysical journal, 2021 - cell.com
Clinical syndrome coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) induced by severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 is characterized by rapid spreading and high mortality …

Pairwise frictional profile between particles determines discontinuous shear thickening transition in non-colloidal suspensions

J Comtet, G Chatté, A Nigues, L Bocquet, A Siria… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The process by which sheared suspensions go through a dramatic change in viscosity is
known as discontinuous shear thickening. Although well-characterized on the macroscale …

Physical properties of blood and their relationship to clinical conditions

T Alexy, J Detterich, P Connes, K Toth, E Nader… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
It has been long known that blood health heavily influences optimal physiological function.
Abnormalities affecting the physical properties of blood have been implicated in the …

Flow-induced transitions of red blood cell shapes under shear

J Mauer, S Mendez, L Lanotte, F Nicoud, M Abkarian… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
A recent study of red blood cells (RBCs) in shear flow [Lanotte et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.
USA 113, 13289 (2016) PNASA6 0027-8424 10.1073/pnas. 1608074113] has …

Numerical study of the vortex‐induced electroosmotic mixing of non‐Newtonian biofluids in a nonuniformly charged wavy microchannel: Effect of finite ion size

SK Mehta, S Pati, PK Mondal - Electrophoresis, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We propose a micromixer for obtaining better efficiency of vortex induced electroosmotic
mixing of non‐Newtonian bio‐fluids at a relatively higher flow rate, which finds relevance in …

Metabolic influences modulating erythrocyte deformability and eryptosis

JF Brun, E Varlet-Marie, J Myzia… - Metabolites, 2021 - mdpi.com
Many factors in the surrounding environment have been reported to influence erythrocyte
deformability. It is likely that some influences represent reversible changes in erythrocyte …

Big data in transfusion medicine and artificial intelligence analysis for red blood cell quality control

MGM Lopes, SM Recktenwald, G Simionato… - Transfusion Medicine …, 2023 - karger.com
Background:“Artificial intelligence” and “big data” increasingly take the step from just being
interesting concepts to being relevant or even part of our lives. This general statement holds …

Glutaraldehyde–a subtle tool in the investigation of healthy and pathologic red blood cells

A Abay, G Simionato, R Chachanidze… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Glutaraldehyde is a well-known substance used in biomedical research to fix cells. Since
hemolytic anemias are often associated with red blood cell shape changes deviating from …