Estimation of membrane bending modulus of stiffness tuned human red blood cells from micropore filtration studies.

Human red blood cells (RBCs) need to deform in order to pass through capillaries in human vasculature with diameter smaller than that of the RBC. An altered RBC cell membrane stiffness (CMS), thereby, is likely to have consequences on their flow rate. RBC CMS is known to be affected by several commo...

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Main Authors: Rekha Selvan, Praveen Parthasarathi, Shruthi S Iyengar, Sharath Ananthamurthy, Sarbari Bhattacharya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226640