title: Impairment of erythrocytes incubated in glucose medium: a wavelet-information theory analysis.
abstract: This study investigates the effects produced by an increased concentration of glucose in a suspending medium on the erythrocytes Information Theory quantifiers. Erythrocytes, which were obtained from eight healthy volunteers, were washed and incubated in vitro with glucose solutions at different concentrations. The measured Wavelet-based Information Theory quantifiers include the Relative Wavelet Energy (RWE), the Normalized Total Wavelet Shannon Entropy (NTWS), MPR-Statistical Complexity Measure (SCM) and entropy-complexity plane. The results show that the increase in glucose concentration does not produce significant changes on the RWE, while significant ones on the NTSE, which combined with SCM values allow to identify different behaviour for all the different populations in the entropy-complexity plane. Modification in the hemorheological properties of cells could be clearly detected with these Wavelet-based Information Theory quantifiers.
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531 (2000), Rosario, Argentina. ljap02@hotmail.com
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Korol
authors.forename: O A
authors.initials: OA
authors.lastname: Rosso
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Martín
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: D'Arrigo
authors.forename: B D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Riquelme
mesh_terms: D019277:Entropy; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000187:drug effects*; D005947:Glucose / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical
chemical_list: D005947:Glucose