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Biophysical Journal 3: 199-213 (1963)
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Rheology of Human Blood, near and at Zero Flow

Effects of Temperature and Hematocrit Level

E. W. Merrill, E. R. Gilliland, G. Cokelet, H. Shin, A. Britten and R. E. Wells, Jr.

ABSTRACT

Static normal human blood possesses a distinctive yield stress. When the yield stress is exceeded, the same blood has a stress-shear rate function under creeping flow conditions closely following Casson's model, which implies reversible aggregation of red cells in rouleaux and flow dominated by movement of rouleaux. The yield stress is essentially independent of temperature and its cube root varies linearly with hematocrit value. The dynamic rheological properties in the creeping flow range are such that the relative viscosity of blood to water is almost independent of temperature. Questions raised by these data are discussed, including red cell aggregation promoted by elements in the plasma.






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