The role of elasticity in thixotropy: Transient elastic stress during stepwise reduction in shear rate

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 033112
Author(s):  
Jiho Choi ◽  
Matthew Armstrong ◽  
Simon A. Rogers
1989 ◽  
Vol 61 (03) ◽  
pp. 485-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Bastida ◽  
Lourdes Almirall ◽  
Antonio Ordinas

SummaryBlood platelets are thought to be involved in certain aspects of malignant dissemination. To study the role of platelets in tumor cell adherence to vascular endothelium we performed studies under static and flow conditions, measuring tumor cell adhesion in the absence or presence of platelets. We used highly metastatic human adenocarcinoma cells of the lung, cultured human umbilical vein endothelial cells (ECs) and extracellular matrices (ECM) prepared from confluent EC monolayers. Our results indicated that under static conditions platelets do not significantly increase tumor cell adhesion to either intact ECs or to exposed ECM. Conversely, the studies performed under flow conditions using the flat chamber perfusion system indicated that the presence of 2 × 105 pl/μl in the perfusate significantly increased the number of tumor cells adhered to ECM, and that this effect was shear rate dependent. The maximal values of tumor cell adhesion were obtained, in presence of platelets, at a shear rate of 1,300 sec-1. Furthermore, our results with ASA-treated platelets suggest that the role of platelets in enhancing tumor cell adhesion to ECM is independent of the activation of the platelet cyclooxygenase pathway.


Blood ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 1214-1217
Author(s):  
E Fressinaud ◽  
D Baruch ◽  
C Rothschild ◽  
HR Baumgartner ◽  
D Meyer

Although it is well established that plasma von Willebrand Factor (vWF) is essential to platelet adhesion to subendothelium at high shear rates, the role of platelet vWF is less clear. We studied the respective role of both plasma and platelet vWF in mediating platelet adhesion to fibrillar collagen in a parallel-plate perfusion chamber. Reconstituted blood containing RBCs, various mixtures of labeled washed platelets and plasma from controls or five patients with severe von Willebrand disease (vWD), was perfused through the chamber for five minutes at a shear rate of 1,600 s-1. Platelet-collagen interactions were estimated by counting the radioactivity in deposited platelets and by quantitative morphometry. When the perfusate consisted of normal platelets suspended in normal plasma, platelet deposition on the collagen was 24.7 +/- 3.6 X 10(6)/cm2 (mean +/- SEM, n = 6). Significantly less deposition (16 +/- 2.3) was observed when vWD platelets were substituted for normal platelets. In mixtures containing vWD plasma, significantly greater deposition (9 +/- 2.2) was obtained with normal than with vWD platelets (1 +/- 0.4) demonstrating a role for platelet vWF in mediating the deposition of platelets on collagen. Morphometric analysis confirmed these data. Our findings indicate that platelet, as well as plasma, vWF mediates platelet-collagen interactions at a high shear rate.


Biochimie ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 107 ◽  
pp. 28-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivier Soubias ◽  
Walter E. Teague ◽  
Kirk G. Hines ◽  
Klaus Gawrisch

Author(s):  
Н.П. Александрова ◽  
В.И. Карандашов ◽  
А.В. Варданян

Введение. Вопросы патогенеза острого панкреатита и панкреонекроза до настоящего времени остаются в центре внимания исследователей и клиницистов. До сих пор до конца не выяснена роль изменений в системе гемостаза и гемореологических нарушений в развитии этого заболевания. Цель исследования: установить роль гемореологических нарушений в патогенезе геморрагического панкреонекроза и изучить специфику механизма этих расстройств. Материалы и методы. Обследовано 29 пациентов с геморрагическим панкреонекрозом (12 женщин и 17 мужчин) в возрасте от 23 до 60 лет. Исследовали вязкость крови, показатель гематокрита, количество эритроцитов и их диаметр, агрегацию, электрофоретическую подвижность, деформируемость и механическую резистентность эритроцитов, белковый состав плазмы, содержание сиаловой кислоты в плазме и в эритроцитах, параметры липидного обмена, содержание кальция и фибриногена в крови,фибринолитическую активность крови и агрегационную активность тромбоцитов, гемокоагуляционная активность исследована методом тромбоэластографии. Для определения нормальных значений исследованных показателей было обследовано 15 практически здоровых лиц (7 женщин и 8 мужчин). Результаты. У больных панкреонекрозом самым грубым нарушениям подвергаются эритроциты: их механическая резистентность снижалась в 2 раза, объем увеличивался на 18,7%, деформируемость падала на 43,8%, количество снижалось на 8,75%, показатель гематокрита при этом оставался на уровне нормальных значений по причине увеличенного объема (сферичности) клеток; в 1,8 раза возрастала агрегация эритроцитов. Вязкость крови при скорости сдвига 1 c–1 увеличивалась в 3,3 раза, а при скорости сдвига 150 c–1 — в 1,58 раза по сравнению с нормой. Причиной повышения агрегации эритроцитов являлось снижение их электрофоретической подвижности на 35,9% из-за десиализации их мембран: концентрация сиаловой кислоты в клеточных мембранах была снижена на 20,8%, а содержание конъюгированной сиаловой кислоты в плазме увеличено в 2,25 раза по сравнению с нормальными значениями. Заключение. Гемореологические расстройства, которые возникают первоначально у больных геморрагическим панкреонекрозом как результат некротических изменений поджелудочной железы, с определенного, довольно раннего этапа сами становятся фактором патогенеза данного заболевания. Доминирующим фактором прогрессивного увеличения вязкости крови у больных панкреонекрозом является нарушение морфофункциональных и физико-химических свой ств эритроцитов на фоне высокой активности протеолитических ферментов, биологически активных аминов и крайней степени токсемии. Background. The pathogenesis of acute pancreatitis and pancreonecrosis is still the focus of researchers and clinicians. The role of hemorheological disorders in these diseases remain uncertain until now. Objectives: to define the role of hemorheological disorders in the pathogenesis of hemorrhagic pancreonecrosis and to study the specifics of the mechanism of these disorders. Patients/Methods. This study included 29 patients (12 women and 17 men, age of 23 to 60 years old) with hemorrhagic pancreatic necrosis. We examined blood viscosity, hematocrit and some erythrocyte properties as count, diameter, aggregation, electrophoretic mobility, deformability and mechanical resistance; other investigated parameters were plasma protein composition, plasma and erythrocytes sialic acid concentrations, lipids, total calcium and fibrinogen concentrations, blood fibrinolytic activity, platelets aggregation activity; total hemocoagulation activity was studied with thromboelastography. Control group contained 15 practically healthy individuals (7 women and 8 men). Results. Expressed disturbances of blood rheological properties, mostly in erythrocytes were detected in patients with pancreonecrosis. Red blood cells (RBC) showed 2-times decreasing of mechanical resistance, of their volume by 18.7%, of deformability by 43.8%, of count by 8.75%. Hematocrit remained normal level due to RBC increased volume (sphericity). RBC aggregation had been increased by 1.8 times. Blood viscosity at the shear rate of 1 s–1 was increased by 3.3 times and at the shear rate of 150 s–1 by 1.58 times. Raised erythrocyte aggregation was caused by a decrease of RBC electrophoretic mobility of 35.9%. Sialic acid concentration in RBC membranes was lower of 20.8% whereas conjugated sialic acid in plasma showed increasing by 2.25 times. Conclusions. RBC morphofunctional and physicochemical disturbances cause the increase in blood viscosity in patients with pancreonecrosis. It is distinguishing feature of hemorheological disorders in hemorrhagic pancreonecrosis developing, seems, due to high activity of proteolytic enzymes and biologically active amines. Of particular importance in hemorrhagic pancreonecrosis belong to platelet involving into intravascular coagulation.


2011 ◽  
Vol 110 (2) ◽  
pp. 389-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grant H. Simmons ◽  
Jaume Padilla ◽  
Colin N. Young ◽  
Brett J. Wong ◽  
James A. Lang ◽  
...  

Acute leg exercise increases brachial artery retrograde shear rate (SR), while chronic exercise improves vasomotor function. These combined observations are perplexing given the proatherogenic impacts of retrograde shear stress on the vascular endothelium and may be the result of brief protocols used to study acute exercise responses. Therefore, we hypothesized that brachial artery retrograde SR increases initially but subsequently decreases in magnitude during prolonged leg cycling. Additionally, we tested the role of cutaneous vasodilation in the elimination of increased retrograde SR during prolonged exercise. Brachial artery diameter and velocity profiles and forearm skin blood flow and temperature were measured at rest and during 50 min of steady-state, semirecumbent leg cycling (120 W) in 14 males. Exercise decreased forearm vascular conductance (FVC) and increased retrograde SR at 5 min (both P < 0.05), but subsequently forearm and cutaneous vascular conductance (CVC) rose while retrograde SR returned toward baseline values. The elimination of increased retrograde SR was related to the increase in FVC ( r2= 0.58; P < 0.05) and CVC ( r2= 0.32; P < 0.05). Moreover, when the forearm was cooled via a water-perfused suit between minutes 30 and 40 to blunt cutaneous vasodilation attending exercise, FVC was reduced and the magnitude of retrograde SR was increased from −49.7 ± 13.6 to −78.4 ± 16.5 s−1( P < 0.05). Importantly, these responses resolved with removal of cooling during the final 10 min of exercise (retrograde SR: −46.9 ± 12.5 s−1). We conclude that increased brachial artery retrograde SR at the onset of leg cycling subsequently returns toward baseline values due in part to thermoregulatory cutaneous vasodilation during prolonged exercise.


Fuel ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 73 (7) ◽  
pp. 1103-1107 ◽  
Author(s):  
T WHEELOCK ◽  
G MILANA ◽  
A VETTOR
Keyword(s):  

Blood ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 113 (21) ◽  
pp. 5323-5329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fumiaki Banno ◽  
Anil K. Chauhan ◽  
Koichi Kokame ◽  
Jin Yang ◽  
Shigeki Miyata ◽  
...  

Abstract ADAMTS13 is a multidomain protease that limits platelet thrombogenesis through the cleavage of von Willebrand factor (VWF). We previously identified 2 types of mouse Adamts13 gene: the 129/Sv-strain Adamts13 gene encodes the long-form ADAMTS13 having the same domains as human ADAMTS13, whereas the C57BL/6-strain Adamts13 gene encodes the short-form ADAMTS13 lacking the distal C-terminal domains. To assess the physiologic significance of the distal C-terminal domains of ADAMTS13, we generated and analyzed 129/Sv-genetic background congenic mice (Adamts13S/S) that carry the short-form ADAMTS13. Similar to wild-type 129/Sv mice (Adamts13L/L), Adamts13S/S did not have ultralarge VWF multimers in plasma, in contrast to 129/Sv-genetic background ADAMTS13-deficient mice (Adamts13−/−). However, in vitro thrombogenesis under flow at a shear rate of 5000 s−1 was accelerated in Adamts13S/S compared with Adamts13L/L. Both in vivo thrombus formation in ferric chloride–injured arterioles and thrombocytopenia induced by collagen plus epinephrine challenge were more dramatic in Adamts13S/S than in Adamts13L/L but less than in Adamts13−/−. These results suggested that the C-terminally truncated ADAMTS13 exhibited decreased activity in the cleavage of VWF under high shear rate. Role of the C-terminal domains may become increasingly important under prothrombotic conditions.


1989 ◽  
Vol 177 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. T. Milner ◽  
M. E. Cates

ABSTRACTIn the isotropic to lamellar transition, nonlinear fluctuation terms lower the transition temperature τc and drive the transition first order. Here we show that steady shear, by suppressing the fluctuations, raises τc; in a certain temperature range the lamellar phase can be induced by applying shear. A study of the effective potential indicates that the transition remains first order, though becoming very weak at high shear rate. We argue heuristically that the lamellar ordering first occurs with wavevector normal to both the velocity and the velocity gradient. We estimate the characteristic shear rate for two current experimental systems.


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