OBJECTIVES To evaluate fasting serum insulin levels and insulin resistance, and their association with blood rheology, in Japanese young adults without diabetes. METHODS Blood samples were analysed and blood rheology was estimated using haematological parameters. Whole blood passage time was measured using a Hitachi MC-FAN(©) microchannel array flow analyser. RESULTS Out of 151 subjects (me...

Response of the cytoskeleton to mechanical stimulus, which involves coordinated assembly and disassembly of cytoskeletal polymers and their coupling to motor proteins, has been shown to be governed by a ubiquitous mechanical behavior called power-law rheology. Various experimental techniques in cell mechanics have yielded similar qualitative observations and quantitative behavior indicating tha...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular complications are common in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Blood rheology is a major determent of coagulation and an established risk factor for cardiovascular events. Since nocturnal hypoxemia could influence parameters of blood rheology, we hypothesized that OSA alters blood rheology independent of other cardiovascular risk factors. METHODS One hundre...

The objective of this work was to assess the impact of filamentous bacteria on the settling velocity and rheological behaviour of activated sludge. We then identified the relevant settling and rheological model parameters to account for the impact of filamentous bulking on the prediction of sludge mixing and transport in secondary settling tanks by a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model. We...

The region of sea ice near the edge of the sea ice pack is known as the marginal ice zone (MIZ), and its dynamics are complicated by ocean wave interaction with the ice cover, strong gradients in the atmosphere and ocean and variations in sea ice rheology. This paper focuses on the role of sea ice rheology in determining the dynamics of the MIZ. Here, sea ice is treated as a granular material w...

We report results of simulations of a model for concentrated aggregated colloidal dispersions under shear flows. In an effort to study trends in rheology for varying colloidal interactions, we study a reduced hydrodynamic, frame-invariant, pair-drag model in which a long-range, many-body mobility matrix is generated just from resistance pair-drag terms that include lubrication. The model also i...

Recent dense granular flow experiments have shown that shear deformation in one region of a granular medium fluidizes its entirety, including regions far from the sheared zone, effectively erasing the yield condition everywhere. This enables slow creep deformation to occur when an external force is applied to a probe in the nominally static regions of the material. The apparent change in rheolo...