Biophysical approach. Theoretical models of deformability in blood flow.
The physical properties of red blood cell membranes pertinent to deformability are the membrane shear modulus, the bending stiffness and shear viscosity. In filtration tests the rate of deformation is sufficiently high that the viscous behaviour of the membrane and of cell contents predominate.
D055592:Biophysical Phenomena; D001703:Biophysics; D001775:Blood Circulation; D004548:Elasticity; D004910:Erythrocyte Membrane / Q000502:physiology; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D014462:Ultrafiltration