White blood cell margination in microcirculation
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White blood cell margination in microcirculation.
Proper functioning of white blood cells is not possible without their ability to adhere to vascular endothelium, which may occur only if they are close enough to vessel walls. To facilitate the adhesion, white blood cells migrate toward the vessel walls in blood flow through a process called margination. The margination of white cells depends on a number of conditions including local hematocrit...
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عنوان ژورنال: Soft Matter
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1744-683X,1744-6848
DOI: 10.1039/c3sm52860j