Abstract: A theoretical analysis of blood flow in the microcirculation of skeletal muscle is provided. The flow in the microvessels of this organ is quasi steady and has a very low Reynolds number. ...

Abstract: A new continuum mechanical theory for protopod extension in leukocytes is developed. Protopod formation is an active process which is the basis for amoeboid displacement on substrates. Leukocytes ...

Abstract: In order to establish a quantitative model of blood flow in skeletal muscle, the mechanical properties of the blood vessels need to be measured. We present measurements of the viscoelastic ...

Abstract: Although blood flow in the microcirculation of the rat skeletal muscle has negligible inertia forces with very low Reynolds number and Womersley parameter, time-dependent pressure and flow ...

Abstract: A procedure is proposed to measure the cytoplasmic deformation in active motile neutrophils in the form of cytoplasmic strains and strain rates. Three neighboring microspheres in a local region ...

Abstract: There is extensive ultrastructural evidence in endothelium for the presence of chained vesicles or clusters of attached vesicles, and they are considered to be involved in specific transport ...

Abstract: The following analysis presents an experimental and theoretical study of the passive viscoelastic behavior of human leukocytes. Individual neutrophils in EDTA were observed both during their partial ...