A new biomechanical model for understanding aging of stored Red Blood Cells

Funding: 2018: $30,000

Project Member(s): Saha, S.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC Linkage Projects)
Australian Research Council (ARC Linkage Projects)

Start year: 2017

Publications:

Geekiyanage, NM, Balanant, MA, Sauret, E, Saha, S, Flower, R, Lim, CT & Gu, Y 2019, 'A coarse-grained red blood cell membrane model to study stomatocyte-discocyte-echinocyte morphologies', PLOS ONE, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. e0215447-e0215447.
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Geekiyanage, N, Sauret, E, Saha, S, Flower, R & Gu, Y 1970, 'Modelling the deformation behavior of stomatocyte, discocyte and echinocyte red blood cell morphologies during optical tweezers stretching', 6th International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Biomedical Engineering – CMBE2019, International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Biomedical Engineering, Zeta Computational Resources Ltd, Japan, pp. 157-160.

FOR Codes: Numerical Modelling and Mechanical Characterisation, Biomechanical Engineering, Expanding Knowledge in Engineering, Health and Support Services not elsewhere classified, Evaluation of health and support services not elsewhere classified, Provision of health and support services not elsewhere classified

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