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Local Hematocrit Fluctuation Induced by Malaria-Infected Red Blood Cells and Its Effect on Microflow

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1 Published in 2018 at "BioMed Research International"

DOI: 10.1155/2018/8065252

Abstract: We investigate numerically the microscale blood flow in which red blood cells (RBCs) are partially infected by Plasmodium falciparum, the malaria parasite. The infected RBCs are modeled as more rigid cells with less deformability than… read more here.

Keywords: red blood; hematocrit; blood; fluctuation ... See more keywords