Red Blood Cell Aggregation

ISBN: 9780367382315 出版年：2011 页码：310 Baskurt, Oguz Neu, Bjorn Meiselman, Herbert J CRC Press

Red blood cells in humans-and most other mammals-have a tendency to form aggregates with a characteristic face-to-face morphology, similar to a stack of coins. Known as rouleaux, these aggregates are a normally occurring phenomenon and have a major impact on blood rheology. What is the underlying mechanism that produces this pattern? Does this real