Abstract
The following analysis presents an experimental and theoretical study of the passive viscoelastic behavior of human leukocytes. Individual neutrophils in EDTA were observed both during their partial aspiration into a small micropipette and after expulsion from a large micropipette where the cell had been totally aspirated and deformed into a sausage shape. To analyze the data, a passive model of leukocyte rheology has been developed consisting of a cortical shell containing a Maxwell fluid which describes the average properties of the cell cytoplasm. The cortical shell represents a crosslinked actin layer near the surface of the cell and is assumed to be under pre-stressed tension. This model can reproduce the results of experiments using micropipette for both short-time small deformation and slow recovery data after large deformation. In addition, a finite element scheme has been established for the same model which shows close agreement with the analytical solution.
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Created | 16 years, 2 months ago (June 12, 2009, 6:34 p.m.) |
Deposited | 5 years, 11 months ago (Oct. 4, 2019, 6:48 a.m.) |
Indexed | 2 months ago (July 2, 2025, 2:33 p.m.) |
Issued | 37 years, 7 months ago (Feb. 1, 1988) |
Published | 37 years, 7 months ago (Feb. 1, 1988) |
Published Online | 37 years, 7 months ago (Feb. 1, 1988) |
Published Print | 37 years, 7 months ago (Feb. 1, 1988) |
@article{Dong_1988, title={Passive Deformation Analysis of Human Leukocytes}, volume={110}, ISSN={1528-8951}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.3108402}, DOI={10.1115/1.3108402}, number={1}, journal={Journal of Biomechanical Engineering}, publisher={ASME International}, author={Dong, Cheng and Skalak, R. and Sung, Kuo-Li Paul and Schmid-Scho¨nbein, G. W. and Chien, Shu}, year={1988}, month=feb, pages={27–36} }