[HTML][HTML] Advances in the measurement of red blood cell deformability: A brief review

J Kim, HY Lee, S Shin - Journal of Cellular Biotechnology, 2015 - content.iospress.com
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 …

Biomechanical properties of red blood cells in health and disease towards microfluidics

G Tomaiuolo - Biomicrofluidics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Red blood cells (RBCs) possess a unique capacity for undergoing cellular deformation to
navigate across various human microcirculation vessels, enabling them to pass through …

[HTML][HTML] Deformability of stored red blood cells

G Barshtein, I Pajic-Lijakovic, A Gural - Frontiers in Physiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Red blood cells (RBCs) deformability refers to the cells' ability to adapt their shape to the
dynamically changing flow conditions so as to minimize their resistance to flow. The high red …

Microfluidic analysis of red blood cell deformability

Q Guo, SP Duffy, K Matthews, AT Santoso… - Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
A common indicator of rheological dysfunction is a measurable decrease in the deformability
of red blood cells (RBCs). Decreased RBC deformability is associated with cellular stress or …

Technologies for measuring red blood cell deformability

K Matthews, ES Lamoureux, ME Myrand-Lapierre… - Lab on a Chip, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Human red blood cells (RBCs) are approximately 8 μm in diameter, but must repeatedly
deform through capillaries as small as 2 μm in order to deliver oxygen to all parts of the …

Alterations in red blood cell deformability during storage: a microfluidic approach

JCA Cluitmans, V Chokkalingam… - BioMed Research …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Red blood cells (RBCs) undergo extensive deformation when travelling through the
microcapillaries. Deformability, the combined result of properties of the membrane …

[HTML][HTML] A microfluidic deformability assessment of pathological red blood cells flowing in a hyperbolic converging microchannel

V Faustino, RO Rodrigues, D Pinho, E Costa… - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
The loss of the red blood cells (RBCs) deformability is related with many human diseases,
such as malaria, hereditary spherocytosis, sickle cell disease, or renal diseases. Hence …

[HTML][HTML] Red blood cell deformability is expressed by a set of interrelated membrane proteins

G Barshtein, A Gural, D Arbell, R Barkan… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Red blood cell (RBC) deformability, expressing their ability to change their shape, allows
them to minimize their resistance to flow and optimize oxygen delivery to the tissues. RBC …

The relationship between red blood cell deformability metrics and perfusion of an artificial microvascular network

JM Sosa, ND Nielsen, SM Vignes… - Clinical …, 2014 - content.iospress.com
The ability of red blood cells (RBC) to undergo a wide range of deformations while
traversing the microvasculature is crucial for adequate perfusion. Interpretation of RBC …

Extensional flow-based assessment of red blood cell deformability using hyperbolic converging microchannel

SS Lee, Y Yim, KH Ahn, SJ Lee - Biomedical microdevices, 2009 - Springer
The deformability of the red blood cell (RBC), is known to be closely related to
microcirculation and diagnosis of specific diseases such as malaria, arterial sclerosis …