State diagram for wall adhesion of red blood cells in shear flow: from crawling to flipping

Soft Matter ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (27) ◽  
pp. 5511-5520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anil K. Dasanna ◽  
Dmitry A. Fedosov ◽  
Gerhard Gompper ◽  
Ulrich S. Schwarz

Using multiparticle collision dynamics with angular momentum conservation, we investigated the role of shear rate, stiffness and viscosity contrast for the adhesion of biconcave deformable cells or capsules in shear flow.

1985 ◽  
Vol 160 ◽  
pp. 119-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Barthes-Biesel ◽  
H. Sgaier

Red blood cells or artificial vesicles may be conveniently represented by capsules, i.e. liquid droplets surrounded by deformable membranes. The aim of this paper is to assess the importance of viscoelastic properties of the membrane on the motion of a capsule freely suspended in a viscous liquid subjected to shear flow. A regular perturbation solution of the general problem is obtained when the particle is initially spherical and undergoing small deformations. With a purely viscous membrane (infinite relaxation time) the capsule deforms into an ellipsoid and has a continuous flipping motion. When the membrane relaxation time is of the same order as the shear time, the particle reaches a steady ellipsoidal shape which is oriented with respect to streamlines at an angle that varies between 45° and 0°, and decreases with increasing shear rates. Furthermore it is predicted that the deformation reaches a maximum value, which is consistent with experimental observations of red blood cells.


2016 ◽  
Vol 800 ◽  
pp. 484-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Cordasco ◽  
Prosenjit Bagchi

We present a three-dimensional computational study of fully deformable red blood cells of the biconcave resting shape subject to sinusoidally oscillating shear flow. A comprehensive analysis of the cell dynamics and deformation response is considered over a wide range of flow frequency, shear rate amplitude and viscosity ratio. We observe that the cell exhibits either a periodic motion or a chaotic motion. In the periodic motion, the cell reverses its orientation either by passing through the flow direction (horizontal axis) or by passing through the flow gradient (vertical axis). The chaotic dynamics is characterized by a non-periodic sequence of horizontal and vertical reversals. The study provides the first conclusive evidence of the chaotic dynamics of fully deformable cells in oscillating flow using a deterministic numerical model without the introduction of any stochastic noise. In certain regimes of the periodic motion, the initial conditions are completely forgotten and the cells become entrained in the same sequence of horizontal reversals. We show that chaos is only possible in certain frequency bands when the cell membrane can rotate by a certain amount, allowing the cells to swing near the maximum shear rate. As such, the bifurcation between the horizontal and vertical attractors in phase space always occurs via a swinging inflection. While the reversal sequence evolves in an unpredictable way in the chaotic regime, we find a novel result that there exists a critical inclination angle at the instant of flow reversal which determines whether a vertical or horizontal reversal takes place, and is independent of the flow frequency. The chaotic dynamics, however, occurs at a viscosity ratio less than the physiological values. We further show that the cell shape in oscillatory shear at large amplitude exhibits a remarkable departure from the biconcave shape, and that the deformation is significantly greater than that in steady shear flow. A large compression of the cells occurs during the reversals which leads to over/undershoots in the deformation parameter. We show that due to the large deformation experienced by the cells, the regions of chaos in parameter space diminish and eventually disappear at high shear rate, in contradiction to the prediction of reduced-order models. While the findings bolster support for reduced-order models at low shear rate, they also underscore the important role that the cell deformation plays in large-amplitude oscillatory flows.


1990 ◽  
Vol 63 (01) ◽  
pp. 112-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
David N Bell ◽  
Samira Spain ◽  
Harry L Goldsmith

SummaryThe effect of red blood cells, rbc, and shear rate on the ADPinduced aggregation of platelets in whole blood, WB, flowing through polyethylene tubing was studied using a previously described technique (1). Effluent WB was collected into 0.5% glutaraldehyde and the red blood cells removed by centrifugation through Percoll. At 23°C the rate of single platelet aggregtion was upt to 9× greater in WB than previously found in platelet-rich plasma (2) at mean tube shear rates Ḡ = 41.9,335, and 1,920 s−1, and at both 0.2 and 1.0 µM ADP. At 0.2 pM ADP, the rate of aggregation was greatest at Ḡ = 41.9 s−1 over the first 1.7 s mean transit time through the flow tube, t, but decreased steadily with time. At Ḡ ≥335 s−1 the rate of aggregation increased between t = 1.7 and 8.6 s; however, aggregate size decreased with increasing shear rate. At 1.0 µM ADP, the initial rate of single platelet aggregation was still highest at Ḡ = 41.9 s1 where large aggregates up to several millimeters in diameter containing rbc formed by t = 43 s. At this ADP concentration, aggregate size was still limited at Ḡ ≥335 s−1 but the rate of single platelet aggregation was markedly greater than at 0.2 pM ADP. By t = 43 s, no single platelets remained and rbc were not incorporated into aggregates. Although aggregate size increased slowly, large aggregates eventually formed. White blood cells were not significantly incorporated into aggregates at any shear rate or ADP concentration. Since the present technique did not induce platelet thromboxane A2 formation or cause cell lysis, these experiments provide evidence for a purely mechanical effect of rbc in augmenting platelet aggregation in WB.


Hematology ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 2007 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn J. Telen

AbstractA number of lines of evidence now support the hypothesis that vaso-occlusion and several of the sequelae of sickle cell disease (SCD) arise, at least in part, from adhesive interactions of sickle red blood cells, leukocytes, and the endothelium. Both experimental and genetic evidence provide support for the importance of these interactions. It is likely that future therapies for SCD might target one or more of these interactions.


Anemia ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erwin Weiss ◽  
David Charles Rees ◽  
John Stanley Gibson

Phosphatidylserine exposure occurs in red blood cells (RBCs) from sickle cell disease (SCD) patients and is increased by deoxygenation. The mechanisms responsible remain unclear. RBCs from SCD patients also have elevated cation permeability, and, in particular, a deoxygenation-induced cation conductance which mediates entry, providing an obvious link with phosphatidylserine exposure. The role of was investigated using FITC-labelled annexin. Results confirmed high phosphatidylserine exposure in RBCs from SCD patients increasing upon deoxygenation. When deoxygenated, phosphatidylserine exposure was further elevated as extracellular [] was increased. This effect was inhibited by dipyridamole, intracellular chelation, and Gardos channel inhibition. Phosphatidylserine exposure was reduced in high saline. levels required to elicit phosphatidylserine exposure were in the low micromolar range. Findings are consistent with entry through the deoxygenation-induced pathway (), activating the Gardos channel. [] required for phosphatidylserine scrambling are in the range achievablein vivo.


2010 ◽  
Vol 142 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios N. Tziakas ◽  
Georgios K. Chalikias ◽  
Dimitrios Stakos ◽  
Harisios Boudoulas

1978 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Bard ◽  
J. C. Fouron ◽  
J. E. Robillard ◽  
A. Cornet ◽  
M. A. Soukini

Studies were carried out during fetal life in sheep to determine the relationship of 2,3-diphosphoglycerate (DPG), the intracellular red cell and extracellular pH, and the switchover to adult hemoglobin synthesis in regulating the position of the fetal red cell oxygen-affinity curve in utero. Adult hemoglobin first appeared near 120 days of gestation. The mean oxygen tension at which hemoglobin is half saturated (P50) prior to 120 days of gestation remained constant at 13.9 +/- 0.3 (SD) Torr and then increased gradually as gestation continued, reaching 19 Torr at term. During the interval of fetal life studied, the level of DPG was 4.43 +/- 1.63 (SD) micromol/g Hb and the deltapH between plasma and red blood cells was 0.227 +/- 0.038 (SD); neither was affected by gestational age. The decrease in the red cell oxygen affinity after 120 days of gestation ocrrelated with the amount of adult hemoglobin present in the fetus (r = 0.78; P less than 0.001). This decrease can be attributed only to the amount of the adult-type hemoglobin present, and not to DPG, or to changes in the deltapH between plasma and red blood cells, because both remained stable during the last trimester.


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