Red blood cell storage lesion: causes and potential clinical consequences

T Yoshida, M Prudent, A D'Alessandro - Blood Transfusion, 2019‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Red blood cells (RBCs) are a specialised organ that enabled the evolution of multicellular
organisms by supplying a sufficient quantity of oxygen to cells that cannot obtain oxygen …

Squeezing for life–properties of red blood cell deformability

R Huisjes, A Bogdanova, WW Van Solinge… - Frontiers in …, 2018‏ - frontiersin.org
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) …

Broken detailed balance and non-equilibrium dynamics in living systems: a review

FS Gnesotto, F Mura, J Gladrow… - Reports on Progress in …, 2018‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Living systems operate far from thermodynamic equilibrium. Enzymatic activity can induce
broken detailed balance at the molecular scale. This molecular scale breaking of detailed …

Active particles induce large shape deformations in giant lipid vesicles

HR Vutukuri, M Hoore, C Abaurrea-Velasco… - Nature, 2020‏ - nature.com
Biological cells generate intricate structures by sculpting their membrane from within to
actively sense and respond to external stimuli or to explore their environment,,–. Several …

Diffraction phase microscopy: principles and applications in materials and life sciences

B Bhaduri, C Edwards, H Pham, R Zhou… - Advances in Optics …, 2014‏ - opg.optica.org
The main obstacle in retrieving quantitative phase with high sensitivity is posed by the phase
noise due to mechanical vibrations and air fluctuations that typically affect any …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative phase imaging techniques for the study of cell pathophysiology: from principles to applications

KR Lee, K Kim, J Jung, JH Heo, S Cho, S Lee… - Sensors, 2013‏ - mdpi.com
A cellular-level study of the pathophysiology is crucial for understanding the mechanisms
behind human diseases. Recent advances in quantitative phase imaging (QPI) techniques …

Equilibrium physics breakdown reveals the active nature of red blood cell flickering

H Turlier, DA Fedosov, B Audoly, T Auth, NS Gov… - Nature physics, 2016‏ - nature.com
Red blood cells, or erythrocytes, are seen to flicker under optical microscopy, a
phenomenon initially described as thermal fluctuations of the cell membrane. But recent …

Shape and biomechanical characteristics of human red blood cells in health and disease

M Diez-Silva, M Dao, J Han, CT Lim, S Suresh - MRS bulletin, 2010‏ - cambridge.org
The biconcave shape and corresponding deformability of the human red blood cell (RBC) is
an essential feature of its biological function. This feature of RBCs can be critically affected …

Comparative study of iterative reconstruction algorithms for missing cone problems in optical diffraction tomography

JW Lim, KR Lee, KH **, S Shin, SE Lee, YK Park… - Optics express, 2015‏ - opg.optica.org
In optical tomography, there exist certain spatial frequency components that cannot be
measured due to the limited projection angles imposed by the numerical aperture of …

An update on red blood cell storage lesions, as gleaned through biochemistry and omics technologies

A D'Alessandro, AG Kriebardis, S Rinalducci… - …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Red blood cell (RBC) aging in the blood bank is characterized by the accumulation of a
significant number of biochemical and morphologic alterations. Recent mass spectrometry …