A microfluidic erythrocyte sedimentation rate analyzer using rouleaux formation kinetics

A microfluidic erythrocyte sedimentation rate analyzer using rouleaux formation kinetics

Red blood cells form face-to-face linear or branched structures, called as rouleaux, under static conditions or low shear rates in the presence of appropriate macromolecules (Baskurt et al. 2011a; Chien 1975; Merrill 1969; Neu and Meiselman 2007). This process is reversible, and cells can be dispersed individually when a disaggregating shear rate is applied to the cells (Baskurt et al. 2011b; L...

Erythrocyte sedimentation rate by the test-1 analyzer.

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Erythrocyte sedimentation rate.

In their article entitled: “The decrease in erythrocyte sedimentation rate related to general anesthesia”, Clin Hemorheol Microcirc 35 (2006) 459–462, Caglayan and co-workers have investigated the effects of general anesthetic agents on erythrocyte properties, reflected in changes in the Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR). In their introduction the authors referred to the one-hour ESR method ...

Effect of transfusion materials on rouleaux formation and sedimentation rate of erythrocytes.

Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate in Cholera

The erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) has proved of the greatest use in the estimation of the activity or quiescence of chronic inflammatory disease. The mechanism of increase in the sedimentation rate is obscure, but experience has shown that the rate and amount of sedimentation is small when the destructive process is slight, and is markedly increased when the condition is active. Cholera ...