title: [A new viscoelastic model for granulocytes].
abstract: In this paper, a new viscoelastic model for granulocytes was introduced. The stress was placed on the theory and its experimental results of three-parameter viscous model with micropipette aspirating technique. The small deformation of single rat granulocyte into the micropipette was analyzed by the model. Within the small deformation, the fit of the experiment data using the three-parameter viscous model was more satisfactory than that using the standard solid model, and the former suggested that cytoplasm of granulocyte was treated as a liquid rather than a solid.
authors.affiliation: Bioengineering Research Institute of Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Qin
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cai
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004548:Elasticity; D006098:Granulocytes / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological; D051381:Rats; D014783:Viscosity