You are viewing a javascript disabled version of the site. Please enable Javascript for this site to function properly.
Go to headerGo to navigationGo to searchGo to contentsGo to footer
In content section. Select this link to jump to navigation

Biorheology - Volume 35, issue 3

Purchase individual online access for 1 year to this journal.

Price: EUR 90.00
Impact Factor 2024: 1

Biorheology is an international interdisciplinary journal that publishes research on the deformation and flow properties of biological systems or materials. It is the aim of the editors and publishers of Biorheology to bring together contributions from those working in various fields of biorheological research from all over the world. A diverse editorial board with broad international representation provides guidance and expertise in wide-ranging applications of rheological methods to biological systems and materials.

The aim of biorheological research is to determine and characterize the dynamics of physiological processes at all levels of organization. Manuscripts should report original theoretical and/or experimental research promoting the scientific and technological advances in a broad field that ranges from the rheology of macromolecules and macromolecular arrays to cell, tissue and organ rheology. In all these areas, the interrelationships of rheological properties of the systems or materials investigated and their structural and functional aspects are stressed.

The scope of papers solicited by Biorheology extends to systems at different levels of organization that have never been studied before, or, if studied previously, have either never been analyzed in terms of their rheological properties or have not been studied from the point of view of the rheological matching between their structural and functional properties. This biorheological approach applies in particular to molecular studies where changes of physical properties and conformation are investigated without reference to how the process actually takes place, how the forces generated are matched to the properties of the structures and environment concerned, proper time scales, or what structures or strength of structures are required.

Biorheology invites papers in which such 'molecular biorheological' aspects, whether in animal or plant systems, are examined and discussed. While we emphasize the biorheology of physiological function in organs and systems, the biorheology of disease is of equal interest. Biorheological analyses of pathological processes and their clinical implications are encouraged, including basic clinical research on hemodynamics and hemorheology.

In keeping with the rapidly developing fields of mechanobiology and regenerative medicine, Biorheology aims to include studies of the rheological aspects of these fields by focusing on the dynamics of mechanical stress formation and the response of biological materials at the molecular and cellular level resulting from fluid-solid interactions. With increasing focus on new applications of nanotechnology to biological systems, rheological studies of the behavior of biological materials in therapeutic or diagnostic medical devices operating at the micro and nano scales are most welcome.

Nonlinear viscoelasticity of cheese

Authors: Tariq, Salman | Giacomin, A. Jeffrey | Gunasekaran, Sundaram

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Cheese viscoelasticity is commonly measured using steady uniaxial compression, steady uniaxial extension, shear and compressive creep, and stress relaxation in shear and compression. Viscoelastic properties for many cheeses have also been studied using small amplitude oscillatory shear (SAOS). However, there is little on the measurement of nonlinear viscoelastic properties. The large deformation test usually conducted on cheese to study nonlinear viscoelasticity is uniaxial compression, but this test hardly departs from linear behavior. In this work, the nonlinear viscoelasticity of four cheese varieties was studied using large amplitude oscillatory shear (LAOS). A sliding plate rheometer incorporating a shear stress transducer was … Show more

Keywords: Cheese, nonlinear viscoelasticity, oscillatory shear

Citation: Biorheology, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 171-191, 1998

Price: EUR 27.50

A model for cytoplasmic rheology consistent with magnetic twisting cytometry

Authors: Butler, J.P. | Kelly, S.M.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Magnetic twisting cytometry is gaining wide applicability as a tool for the investigation of the rheological properties of cells and the mechanical properties of receptor–cytoskeletal interactions. Current technology involves the application and release of magnetically induced torques on small magnetic particles bound to or inside cells, with measurements of the resulting angular rotation of the particles. The properties of purely elastic or purely viscous materials can be determined by the angular strain and strain rate, respectively. However, the cytoskeleton and its linkage to cell surface receptors display elastic, viscous, and even plastic deformation, and the simultaneous characterization of these properties … Show more

Keywords: Magnetic twisting cytometry, cell rheology, elasticity, stiffness, viscosity, plasticity, cytoskeleton

Citation: Biorheology, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 193-209, 1998

Price: EUR 27.50

Hyaluronan, hydration and flow conductivity of rat dermis

Authors: Bert, Joel | Reed, Rolf K.

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: We have measured the flow conductivity, k/\eta , of discs of rat dermis with and without digestion with hyaluronidase. We found no significant difference between the flow conductivity of hyaluronan digested (k/\eta=5.56\pm2.74 cm^{4} /dyne.s (n=13 )) and untreated tissue (k/\eta=6.03\pm3.15 cm^{4} /dyne.s (n=13 )). For the first time in such experiments the overall tissue hyaluronan content as well as the difference in concentration of this material across tissues subjected to conditions of flow was measured. Similarly, the overall hydration and the difference in fluid content across the tissue is also reported. … Show more

Keywords: Flow conductivity, hyaluronan, hydration, rat dermis, hyaluronidase

Citation: Biorheology, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 211-219, 1998

Price: EUR 27.50

Abstracts from the 21st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Biorheology

Article Type: Abstract

Citation: Biorheology, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 221-243, 1998

Price: EUR 27.50
Show more