Synergistic Integration of Laboratory and Numerical Approaches in Studies of the Biomechanics of Diseased Red Blood Cells

In red blood cell (RBC) disorders, such as sickle cell disease, hereditary spherocytosis, and diabetes, alterations to the size and shape of RBCs due to either mutations of RBC proteins or changes to the extracellular environment, lead to compromised cell deformability, impaired cell stability, and...

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Main Authors: Li, He (Author), Chang, Hung-Yu (Author), Lu, Lu (Author), Deng, Yixiang (Author), Papageorgiou, Dimitrios P. (Contributor), Yang, Jun (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2018-10-01T15:01:48Z.
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