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Migration velocity of red blood cells in microchannels

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The lateral migration of red blood cells (RBCs) in confined channel flows is an important ingre- dient of microcirculatory hydrodynamics and is involved in the development of a cell free layer near vessel walls and influences the distribution of RBCs in networks. It is also relevant to a number of lab-on-chip applications. This migration is a consequence of their deformability and is due to the combined effects of hydrodynamic wall repulsion and the curvature of the fluid velocity profile. We performed microfluidic experiments with dilute suspensions of RBCs in which the trajectories and migration away from the channel wall are analyzed to extract the mean behavior, from which we propose a generic scaling law for the transverse migration velocity valid in a whole range of pa- rameters relevant to microcirculatory and practical situations. Experiments with RBCs of different mechanical properties (separated by density gradient sedimentation or fixed with glutaraldehyde) show the influence of this parameter which can induce significant dispersion of the trajectories.
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hal-02023922 , version 1 (18-02-2019)

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Sylvain Losserand, Gwennou Coupier, Thomas Podgorski. Migration velocity of red blood cells in microchannels. Microvascular Research, 2019, 124, pp.30-36. ⟨10.1016/j.mvr.2019.02.003⟩. ⟨hal-02023922⟩
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