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Aggregation of Erythrocytes into Columnar Structures (“Rouleaux”) and the Rheology of Blood

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The liquid‐crystalline order of the structure of blood, which is determined by the aggregation of erythrocytes into “rouleaux,” i.e., liquid‐crystalline domains, is considered. The form of the viscosity–rate of shear flow curve, specific for liquid‐crystalline polymers, and the scaling regularities of the concentration dependence of the initial viscosity of erythrocyte suspensions are noted. An example of description and a prediction of the rheological functions of blood by the phenomenological model of an anisotropic viscoelastic liquid are given.

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Faitelson, L.A., Jakobsons, E.E. Aggregation of Erythrocytes into Columnar Structures (“Rouleaux”) and the Rheology of Blood. Journal of Engineering Physics and Thermophysics 76, 728–742 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024718308510

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