Measurement of the nonlinear elasticity of red blood cell membranes

Measurement of the nonlinear elasticity of red blood cell membranes

The membranes of human red blood cells (RBCs) are a composite of a fluid lipid bilayer and a triangular network of semiflexible filaments (spectrin). We perform cellular microrheology using the dynamic membrane fluctuations of the RBCs to extract the elastic moduli of this composite membrane. By app...

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Main Authors: Park, YongKeun, Best, Catherine A., Kuriabova, Tatiana, Henle, Mark L., Feld, Michael S., Levine, Alex J., Popescu, Gabriel
Other Authors: Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65332

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