The deformability of red cell packs¹²

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Jacobs, H.R.

Affiliations: Department of Medicine, Northwestern University and the Division of Medicine, Evanston Hospital, Evanston, Illinois

Note: [1] Supported by U.S. Public Health Service Grant H-5446.

Note: [2] Editor’s Note: This paper although more concerned with pharmacology than with rheology, has been accepted because of its close link with the two previous papers by the same author.

Abstract: The deformability of red cells involves their elasticity, flexibility and internal viscosity. The viscosity of a dense pack of red cells involves not only red cell deformability but also intercellular friction. The results described in this paper are the product of a compromise method in which much but not all plasma has been removed before viscometry.

DOI: 10.3233/BIR-1963-1403

Journal: Biorheology, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 233-238, 1963