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MD/DPD Multiscale Framework for Predicting Morphology and Stresses of Red Blood Cells in Health and Disease
28 Oct 2016
Abstract excerpt
Healthy red blood cells (RBCs) have remarkable deformability, squeezing through narrow capillaries as small as 3 microns in diameter without any damage. However, in many hematological disorders the spectrin network and lipid bilayer of diseased RBCs may be significantly altered, leading to impaired functionality including loss of deformability. We employ a two-component whole-cell multiscale model to quantify the...
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