During exercise the cardiovascular system has to warrant substrate supply to working
muscle. The main function of red blood cells in exercise is the transport of O2 from the lungs …

Red blood cells (RBCs) possess a unique capacity for undergoing cellular deformation to
navigate across various human microcirculation vessels, enabling them to pass through …

Red blood cells (RBCs) exhibit a unique deformability, which enables them to change shape
reversibly in response to an external force. The deformability of RBCs allows them to flow in …

A pilot cross sectional study was conducted to investigate the role of red blood cells (RBC)
deformability in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) without and with diabetic retinopathy (DR) …

Whole cell deformability of red cells was measured as a continuous function of suspending
medium osmolality using the ektacytometer, a laser-diffraction viscometer. Study of normal …

Normal red cells deform markedly as they pass through the spleen and the peripheral
capillaries. In these studies, the effects of Plasmodium falciparum infection and maturation …

The rheologic properties of senescent erythrocytes have been examined using two models
of red blood cell (RBC) aging. In the rabbit, aged erythrocytes were isolated after …

The mature red blood cell (RBC) lacks a nucleus and organelles characteristic of most cells,
but it is elegantly structured to perform the essential function of delivering oxygen and …

Hereditary spherocytosis (HS) is a heterogeneous group of disorders with regard to clinical
severity, protein defects and mode of inheritance. It is relatively common in Caucasian …

To further define the conditions for forming spectrin-hemoglobin cross-linking in human
erythrocyte membranes and to examine its possible effects on membrane function, we …