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ArticleMicromachines2021

Modeling Red Blood Cell Viscosity Contrast Using Inner Soft Particle Suspension.

Alžbeta Bohiniková, Iveta Jančigová, Ivan Cimrák

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Article in Micromachines, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alžbeta BohinikováResearch Centre, University of Žilina, 010 26 Žilina, Slovakia.ORCID 0000-0001-8058-7929
Iveta JančigováCell-in-Fluid Biomedical Modelling and Computations Group, Faculty of Management Science and Informatics, University of Žilina, 010 26 Žilina, Slovakia.ORCID 0000-0002-0928-6354
Ivan CimrákResearch Centre, University of Žilina, 010 26 Žilina, Slovakia.ORCID 0000-0002-0389-7891
University of Žilina · SK

Funding

European Regional Development Fund ITMS 313011V446
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The inner viscosity of a biological red blood cell is about five times larger than the viscosity of the blood plasma. In this work, we use dissipative particles to enable the proper viscosity contrast in a mesh-based red blood cell model. Each soft particle represents a coarse-grained virtual cluster of hemoglobin proteins contained in the cytosol of the red blood cell. The particle interactions are governed by conservative and dissipative forces. The conservative forces have purely repulsive character, whereas the dissipative forces depend on the relative velocity between the particles. We design two computational experiments that mimic the classical viscometers. With these experiments we study the effects of particle suspension parameters on the inner cell viscosity and provide parameter sets that result in the correct viscosity contrast. The results are validated with both static and dynamic biological experiment, showing an improvement in the accuracy of the original model without major increase in computational complexity.

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blood cellscomputational modelingdissipative particlesrheologyviscosity

Identifiers

PMID34442596
PMCPMC8398941
OpenAlexW3194615130

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