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Computational Biorheology of Human Blood Flow in Health and Disease

Annals of Biomedical Engineering volume 42, pages 368–387 (2014)Cite this article

Abstract

Hematologic disorders arising from infectious diseases, hereditary factors and environmental influences can lead to, and can be influenced by, significant changes in the shape, mechanical and physical properties of red blood cells (RBCs), and the biorheology of blood flow. Hence, modeling of hematologic disorders should take into account the multiphase nature of blood flow, especially in arterioles and capillaries. We present here an overview of a general computational framework based on dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) which has broad applicability in cell biophysics with implications for diagnostics, therapeutics and drug efficacy assessments for a wide variety of human diseases. This computational approach, validated by independent experimental results, is capable of modeling the biorheology of whole blood and its individual components during blood flow so as to investigate cell mechanistic processes in health and disease. DPD is a Lagrangian method that can be derived from systematic coarse-graining of molecular dynamics but can scale efficiently up to arterioles and can also be used to model RBCs down to the spectrin level. We start from experimental measurements of a single RBC to extract the relevant biophysical parameters, using single-cell measurements involving such methods as optical tweezers, atomic force microscopy and micropipette aspiration, and cell-population experiments involving microfluidic devices. We then use these validated RBC models to predict the biorheological behavior of whole blood in healthy or pathological states, and compare the simulations with experimental results involving apparent viscosity and other relevant parameters. While the approach discussed here is sufficiently general to address a broad spectrum of hematologic disorders including certain types of cancer, this paper specifically deals with results obtained using this computational framework for blood flow in malaria and sickle cell anemia.

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This work was supported by NIH and the new Collaboratory on Mathematics for Mesoscopic Modeling of Materials (CM4), sponsored by DOE. Simulations were performed at the DOE supercomputing centers via an INCITE DOE award, and at the Jülich supercomputing center. Dmitry A. Fedosov acknowledges funding by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. MD and SS acknowledge partial support from the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Center.

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  3. Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, USA

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Fedosov, D.A., Dao, M., Karniadakis, G.E. et al. Computational Biorheology of Human Blood Flow in Health and Disease. Ann Biomed Eng 42, 368–387 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-013-0922-3

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Keywords

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  • Dissipative particle dynamics
  • Coarse-graining
  • Malaria
  • Sickle cell anemia