Dynamics of Blood Cell Suspensions in Microflows

ISBN-13: 9781032176154 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 456 str.

Annie Viallat; Manouk Abkarian

Opis

Blood microcirculation is essential to the successful supply of nutrients, waste removal, oxygen delivery, homeostasis, control of temperature, wound healing and active immune surveillance.

Spis treści

1. Blood in Flow. Basic Concepts. 2. Dynamics of Suspensions of Rigid Particles. 3. Blood as a Suspension of Defomable Particles. 4. Microstructure and Rheology of Cellular Blood Flow, Platelet Margination and Adhesion. 5. Single Red Blood Cell Dynamics in Shear Flow and their Role in Hemorheology. 6. Aggregation and Blood Flow in Health and Disease. 7. Platelet Dynamics and Behaviour in Blood Flow. 8. Blood Suspenison in a Network. 9. White Blood Cell Dynamics in Micro-flows. 10. Inertial Microfluidics and its Application in Hematology. 11. Microfluidic Biotechnologies for Hematology. 12. Blood Suspensions in Animals

 

O autorze

Annie Viallat, senior scientist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, France, heads the "Physics and Engineering for Living Systems" Department in Marseille. She works on the physics of active matter, microcirculation of red blood cells and mucociliary clearance in health and disease.

Manouk Abkarian is a senior scientist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. He is a bio- and a soft matter physicist with an internationally recognized expertise on red blood cells dynamics and membrane mechanics, as well as in microfluidics and colloidal science.