Deformation of Red Blood Cells in Capillaries
- 9 May 1969
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 164 (3880), 717-719
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.164.3880.717
Abstract
The shapes of red blood cells in capillary blood vessels are reinterpreted from observations of human red cells. The parachute or umbrella shape often observed is not an axisymmetric shape as formerly assumed, but is the basic biconcave disk shape of the red cell with the upstream end flattened by the pressure gradient.Keywords
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