TY - JOUR
T1 - Probing the Red Blood Cells Aggregating Force With Optical Tweezers
AU - Lee, Kisung
AU - Danilina, Anna V.
AU - Kinnunen, Matti
AU - Priezzhev, Alexander V.
AU - Meglinski, Igor
PY - 2016/5/1
Y1 - 2016/5/1
N2 - The red blood cells (RBC) aggregation is of current basic science and clinical interest, as a determinant of blood microcirculation. Thus, the measurement and assessment of the RBC aggregation property (aggregability) and aggregation state at different physiologic conditions of a human individual or laboratory animal are an important issue. In this paper, in order to assess the dynamics of RBC interaction, optical tweezers were used to probe the forces during the RBC doublet formation or disruption. We show that in autologous plasma, RBC aggregating and disaggregating forces have different absolute values, ca 2-4 pN and dozens of piconewton, correspondingly. We speculate that in plasma, RBC aggregation and disaggregation processes have different driving forces.
AB - The red blood cells (RBC) aggregation is of current basic science and clinical interest, as a determinant of blood microcirculation. Thus, the measurement and assessment of the RBC aggregation property (aggregability) and aggregation state at different physiologic conditions of a human individual or laboratory animal are an important issue. In this paper, in order to assess the dynamics of RBC interaction, optical tweezers were used to probe the forces during the RBC doublet formation or disruption. We show that in autologous plasma, RBC aggregating and disaggregating forces have different absolute values, ca 2-4 pN and dozens of piconewton, correspondingly. We speculate that in plasma, RBC aggregation and disaggregation processes have different driving forces.
KW - biological interactions
KW - biological processes
KW - biophotonics
KW - biophysics
KW - Blood
KW - cellular biophysics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84960889175&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7247655
U2 - 10.1109/JSTQE.2015.2477396
DO - 10.1109/JSTQE.2015.2477396
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84960889175
SN - 1077-260X
VL - 22
JO - IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
JF - IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
IS - 3
M1 - 7247655
ER -