title: Do changes in cell shape affect suspension conductivity?
abstract: The conductivity of a suspension containing uniformly oriented asymmetric cells depends on the shape of the cells. Whether the shape of cells with random spatial orientation also affects the conductivity of a suspension is not clear. A highly sensitive apparatus was used to register the dynamic changes in conductivity of erythrocyte suspension, upon induced morphological transformation discocytes<-->spherocytes). The results obtained with a sensitivity of up to 0.06% show that the drastic change of cell shape itself did not affect the suspension conductivity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Biophysics, Medical Institute of Stara Zagora, Bulgaria.
authors.forename: I T
authors.initials: IT
authors.lastname: Ivanov
authors.forename: B K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Popov
mesh_terms: D004553:Electric Conductivity; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000166:cytology* / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007700:Kinetics; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological