[HTML][HTML] Deformable discoidal polymeric nanoconstructs for the precise delivery of therapeutic and imaging agents

AL Palange, R Palomba, IF Rizzuti, M Ferreira… - Molecular Therapy, 2017 - cell.com
Over the last 15 years, a plethora of materials and different formulations have been
proposed for the realization of nanomedicines. Yet drug-loading efficiency, sequestration by …

Hybrid smoothed dissipative particle dynamics and immersed boundary method for simulation of red blood cells in flows

T Ye, N Phan-Thien, CT Lim, L Peng, H Shi - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
In biofluid flow systems, often the flow problems of fluids of complex structures, such as the
flow of red blood cells (RBCs) through complex capillary vessels, need to be considered …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of living cells on the bioink printability during laser printing

Z Zhang, C Xu, R Xiong, DB Chrisey, Y Huang - Biomicrofluidics, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Laser-induced forward transfer has been a promising orifice-free bioprinting technique for
the direct writing of three-dimensional cellular constructs from cell-laden bioinks. In order to …

In vitro particulate analogue fluids for experimental studies of rheological and hemorheological behavior of glucose-rich RBC suspensions

D Pinho, L Campo-Deano, R Lima, FT Pinho - Biomicrofluidics, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Suspensions of healthy and pathological red blood cells (RBC) flowing in microfluidic
devices are frequently used to perform in vitro blood experiments for a better understanding …

Effects of flowing RBCs on adhesion of a circulating tumor cell in microvessels

LL Xiao, Y Liu, S Chen, BM Fu - Biomechanics and modeling in …, 2017 - Springer
Adhesion of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) to the microvessel wall largely depends on the
blood hydrodynamic conditions, one of which is the blood viscosity. Since blood is a non …

Red blood cell motion and deformation in a curved microvessel

T Ye, N Phan-Thien, CT Lim, Y Li - Journal of biomechanics, 2017 - Elsevier
The flow of cells through curved vessels is often encountered in various biomedical and
bioengineering applications, such as red blood cells (RBCs) passing through the curved …

[HTML][HTML] Near-wall migration dynamics of erythrocytes in vivo: effects of cell deformability and arteriolar bifurcation

B Namgung, YC Ng, HL Leo, JM Rifkind… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Red blood cell (RBC) deformability has a significant impact on microcirculation by affecting
cell dynamics. Despite previous studies that have demonstrated the margination of rigid …

Numerical studies of a red blood cell in rectangular microchannels

T Ye, H Shi, L Peng, Y Li - Journal of Applied Physics, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
The study of red blood cells (RBCs) flowing through rectangular microchannels has attracted
an increasing interest, because most of the current microfluidic chips are designed as …

Revisiting the use of the immersed-boundary lattice-Boltzmann method for simulations of suspended particles

L Mountrakis, E Lorenz, AG Hoekstra - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
The immersed-boundary lattice-Boltzmann method (IB-LBM) is increasingly being used in
simulations of dense suspensions. These systems are computationally very expensive and …

Numerical study of red blood cell motion and deformation through a michrochannel using lattice Boltzmann-immersed boundary method

A Ghafouri, A Hassanzadeh - Journal of the Brazilian Society of …, 2017 - Springer
In this research, motion and deformation of both healthy and sick red blood cell (RBC) are
simulated in a vessel with and without stenosis for incompressible and viscous internal flow …