Red cell membrane crenation: A macromodel of the echinocyte I
| Autor: | Brian S. Bull, J. Douglas Brailsford, Daniel H. Aldana |
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| Rok vydání: | 1989 |
| Předmět: |
Statistics and Probability
Materials science General Immunology and Microbiology Surface Properties Applied Mathematics Erythrocyte Membrane Echinocyte Synthetic membrane Membranes Artificial General Medicine Bending Models Biological General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Red cell membrane Spherical shell Crenation Shear (sheet metal) Membrane Biochemistry Modeling and Simulation Biophysics General Agricultural and Biological Sciences |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Theoretical Biology. 140:185-192 |
| ISSN: | 0022-5193 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0022-5193(89)80127-4 |
| Popis: | A physical macromodel of the erythrocyte membrane was constructed to investigate the effect of intrinsic membrane precurvature on a unique non-isotropic, composite material that dissipated shear energy but stored bending energy. The intrinsic precurvature of the material could be modified from strong positive precurvature through neutral to strong negative precurvature. A spherical shell constructed of the negatively precurved variant of this non-isotropic material spontaneously assumed the characteristic shape of the echinocyte I. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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