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Squeezing for Life – Properties of Red Blood Cell Deformability
Deformability is an essential feature of blood cells (RBCs) that enables them to travel through even the smallest capillaries of the human body. Deformability is a function of (i) structural elements of cytoskeletal proteins, (ii) processes controlling intracellular ion and water handling and (iii)...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5992676/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29910743 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2018.00656 |