Theory of long-range coherence in biological systems. I. The anomalous behaviour of human erythrocytes.
In this paper, an explicit expression of the interaction potential has been obtained, based on the Fröhlich model of long-range coherence in biological cells. These theoretical expressions are used to correlate with the experimental data obtained from the light scattering and the Brownian motion for the red blood cells (human erythrocytes). The necessary conditions are derived for the formation of rouleaux in human erythrocytes in the presence of long range interactions. The kinetics of rouleaux formation in terms of the properties of the diffusion coefficient has been investigated. It is concluded that both types of experimental data can be interpreted satisfactorily by this model.
D002465:Cell Movement; D004058:Diffusion; D004594:Electrophysiology; D004903:Erythrocyte Aggregation; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D008027:Light; D008954:Models, Biological; D012542:Scattering, Radiation