Blood Flow Velocimetry in a Microchannel During Coagulation Using PIV and wOFV

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Kucukal ◽  
Y. Man ◽  
U. A. Gurkan ◽  
B. E. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Blood Flow ◽  
Blood Cells ◽  
Thrombus Formation ◽  
Blockage Ratio ◽  
Time Decay ◽  
Clotting Time ◽  
White Light Source ◽  
Flow Velocimetry ◽  
Flow Evolution ◽  
Time Decay Rate

Abstract This article describes novel measurements of the velocity of whole blood flow in a microchannel during coagulation. The blood is imaged volumetrically using a simple optical setup involving a white light source and a microscope camera. The images are processed using PIV and wavelet-based optical flow velocimetry (wOFV), both of which use images of individual blood cells as flow tracers. Measurements of several clinically relevant parameters such as the clotting time, decay rate, and blockage ratio are computed. The high-resolution wOFV results yield highly detailed information regarding thrombus formation and corresponding flow evolution that is the first of its kind.

Blood Flow Velocimetry in a Microchannel During Coagulation Using PIV and wOFV

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erdem Kucukal ◽  
Yuncheng Man ◽  
Umut Gurkan ◽  
Bryan Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Blood Flow ◽  
Blood Cells ◽  
Thrombus Formation ◽  
Blockage Ratio ◽  
Time Decay ◽  
Clotting Time ◽  
White Light Source ◽  
Flow Velocimetry ◽  
Flow Evolution ◽  
Time Decay Rate

Abstract This article describes novel measurements of the velocity of whole blood flow in a microchannel during coagulation. The blood is imaged volumetrically using a simple optical setup involving a white light source and a microscope camera. The images are processed using PIV and wavelet-based optical flow velocimetry (wOFV), both of which use images of individual blood cells as flow tracers. Measurements of several clinically relevant parameters such as the clotting time, decay rate, and blockage ratio are computed. The high-resolution wOFV results yield highly detailed information regarding thrombus formation and corresponding flow evolution that is the first of its kind.

Effect of the Red Blood Cells on the Primary Thrombus Formation

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koichiro Yano ◽  
Daisuke Mori ◽  
Ken-ichi Tsubota ◽  
Takuji Ishikawa ◽  
Shigeo Wada ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Dynamics ◽  
Computational Fluid Dynamics ◽  
Blood Flow ◽  
Blood Cell ◽  
Blood Cells ◽  
Thrombus Formation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Biochemical Processes ◽  
Mechanical Factors ◽  
Molecular Bridge

It has been pointed out that some mechanical factors play important roles in a series of physiological or biochemical processes during the thrombus formation. Recently, many studies including the authors’ work qualitatively demonstrated how the thrombus is regulated under the influences of the blood flow and the intercellular molecular bridge using computational fluid dynamics techniques[1–4]. They verified the importance of the balance of them in the process of the thrombus formation. However, few studies have taken into account the existence of the other cell constituents than the platelet such as red blood cell (RBC).

Measurement of the Platelet Response to Laserinduced Microvascular Injury

1974 ◽  
Vol 32 (02/03) ◽  
pp. 695-703 ◽  
Author(s):  
T Hovig ◽  
F. N McKenzie ◽  
K.-E Arfors
Keyword(s):  
Blood Flow ◽  
Internal Structure ◽  
Blood Cells ◽  
Thrombus Formation ◽  
Platelet Response ◽  
Microvascular Injury ◽  
Ultrastructural Studies ◽  
Laser Injury ◽  
Complete Destruction ◽  
Platelet Thrombus

SummaryMicrovascular injury was produced in rabbit mesentery and ear chamber preparations using a biolaser. Ultrastructural studies of the injury sites revealed damage to the endothelium which showed cytoplasmic swelling and flocculation. Complete destruction of the endothelium was not observed, indicating that sub endothelial structures were not exposed to blood flow. Microvascular thrombi which occurred at the sites of injury were composed of platelets which in general were loosely packed and showed minor alterations in shape and internal structure. Erythrocytes appeared to be heavily damaged by the laser injury. Fibrin was not observed. It is concluded that ADP may be released from red blood cells, and possibly from other sources, as a result of the laser injury, and that the platelet thrombus formation is induced by ADP.

Fats and Thrombus Formation

1961 ◽  
Vol 05 (03) ◽  
pp. 474-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.-E Bergentz ◽  
L.-E Gelin ◽  
C.-M Rudenstam
Keyword(s):  
Intravenous Administration ◽  
Blood Cells ◽  
Thrombus Formation ◽  
Clotting Time

Summary and conclusions1. Alimentary and intravenous administration of fat causes intravascular aggregation of blood cells and an increased tendency to formation of thrombi in ligated veins.2. This aggregation and thrombus formation after fat is completely prevented by heparin but is not influenced by the lengthening of clotting time induced by dicumarol.

Effects of NO-Donors on Thrombus Formation and Microcirculation in Cerebral Vessels of the Rat

1996 ◽  
Vol 76 (01) ◽  
pp. 111-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasuto Sasaki ◽  
Junji Seki ◽  
John C Giddings ◽  
Junichiro Yamamoto
Keyword(s):  
Blood Flow ◽  
Thrombus Formation ◽  
Dependent Manner ◽  
Red Cell ◽  
Cell Velocity ◽  
Red Cell Velocity ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Wall Shear ◽  
Dose Dependent

SummarySodium nitroprusside (SNP) and 3-morpholinosydnonimine (SIN-1), are known to liberate nitric oxide (NO). In this study the effects of SNP and SIN-1 on thrombus formation in rat cerebral arterioles and venules in vivo were assessed using a helium-neon (He-Ne) laser. SNP infused at doses from 10 Μg/kg/h significantly inhibited thrombus formation in a dose dependent manner. This inhibition of thrombus formation was suppressed by methylene blue. SIN-1 at a dose of 100 Μg/kg/h also demonstrated a significant antithrombotic effect. Moreover, treatment with SNP increased vessel diameter in a dose dependent manner and enhanced the mean red cell velocity measured with a fiber-optic laser-Doppler anemometer microscope (FLDAM). Blood flow, calculated from the mean red cell velocity and vessel diameters was increased significantly during infusion. In contrast, mean wall shear rates in the arterioles and venules were not changed by SNP infusion. The results indicated that SNP and SIN-1 possessed potent antithrombotic activities, whilst SNP increased cerebral blood flow without changing wall shear rate. The findings suggest that the NO released by SNP and SIN-1 may be beneficial for the treatment and protection of cerebral infarction

Physico-Chemical Explanation of Blood Cell Adhesion in Thrombus Formation

1976 ◽  
Vol 36 (02) ◽  
pp. 430-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Marmur ◽  
E Ruckenstein ◽  
S. R Rakower
Keyword(s):  
Blood Cells ◽  
Thrombus Formation ◽  
Experimental Information ◽  
Deposition Surface ◽  
Physico Chemical ◽  
Quantitative Results ◽  
Energy Of Interaction ◽  
Induced Aggregation ◽  
Adhesion Of Platelets ◽  
Hydrodynamic Factors

SummaryA model is suggested which assumes that the rate of deposition of cells is determined both by hydrodynamic factors and by Brownian motion over the potential barrier caused by London and double-layer forces in the immediate vicinity of the deposition surface. The height of the barrier in the potential energy of interaction between blood cells and various surfaces is analyzed in relation to the physical properties of the cells, surfaces, and solutions. Based on this analysis, the adhesion of platelets to injured blood vessel walls and to non-biologic materials, the lack of adhesion of red blood cells under the same conditions, the mechanism of ADP induced aggregation and the interaction with blood flow are explained. The qualitative predictions of the model are substantiated by available experimental information. Quantitative results are presented in terms of a time constant, which typifies a period of contact with a surface, during which appreciable deposition occurs.

The Flowing Clotting Time (Thrombus Formation Time) a Sensitive Test of Hypercoagulability

1969 ◽  
Vol 21 (03) ◽  
pp. 516-523
Author(s):  
H Engelberg ◽  
L. P Engelberg
Keyword(s):  
Thrombus Formation ◽  
Formation Time ◽  
Sensitive Test ◽  
Clotting Time ◽  
Reliable Test ◽  
Time Test ◽  
Plasma Heparin

SummaryThe addition of small amounts of extrinsic thromboplastin or of thrombin to blood in vitro accelerated coagulation more frequently and to a greater extent when determined by the flowing time test than when measured by the silicone clotting time, or by the blood or plasma heparin tolerance tests. Similar results were obtained when intrinsic thromboplastin formation was stimulated by contact with glass. However there was little or no acceleration of the flowing clotting time of plasma obtained from aliquots of the thromboplastin-containing blood. These results indicate that the flowing clotting time (thrombus formation time) of whole blcod is a more reliable test of hypercoagulability than previously described blood or plasma clotting time tests.

scholarly journals Mathematical Models for Some Aspects of Blood Microcirculation

Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1020
Author(s):  
Angiolo Farina ◽  
Antonio Fasano ◽  
Fabio Rosso
Keyword(s):  
Blood Flow ◽  
Mathematical Models ◽  
Red Blood Cells ◽  
Blood Cells ◽  
Blood Rheology ◽  
Small Class ◽  
Small Vessels ◽  
Blood Microcirculation ◽  
Peculiar Behavior

Blood rheology is a challenging subject owing to the fact that blood is a mixture of a fluid (plasma) and of cells, among which red blood cells make about 50% of the total volume. It is precisely this circumstance that originates the peculiar behavior of blood flow in small vessels (i.e., roughly speaking, vessel with a diameter less than half a millimeter). In this class we find arteriolas, venules, and capillaries. The phenomena taking place in microcirculation are very important in supporting life. Everybody knows the importance of blood filtration in kidneys, but other phenomena, of not less importance, are known only to a small class of physicians. Overviewing such subjects reveals the fascinating complexity of microcirculation.

scholarly journals Confocal Blood Flow Videomicroscopy of Thrombus Formation over Human Arteries and Local Targeting of P2X7

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (8) ◽  
pp. 4066
Author(s):  
Patrizia Marchese ◽  
Maria Lombardi ◽  
Maria Elena Mantione ◽  
Domenico Baccellieri ◽  
David Ferrara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Flow ◽  
Vascular Function ◽  
Collagen Type ◽  
Thrombus Formation ◽  
Collagen Type I ◽  
Type I ◽  
Prevention Therapy ◽  
Healthy Donors ◽  
Internal Mammary ◽  
Human Arteries

Atherothrombosis exposes vascular components to blood. Currently, new antithrombotic therapies are emerging. Herein we investigated thrombogenesis of human arteries with/without atherosclerosis, and the interaction of coagulation and vascular components, we and explored the anti-thrombogenic efficacy of blockade of the P2X purinoceptor 7 (P2X7). A confocal blood flow videomicroscopy system was performed on cryosections of internal mammary artery (IMA) or carotid plaque (CPL) determining/localizing platelets and fibrin. Blood from healthy donors elicited thrombi over arterial layers. Confocal microscopy associated thrombus with tissue presence of collagen type I, laminin, fibrin(ogen) and tissue factor (TF). The addition of antibodies blocking TF (aTF) or factor XI (aFXI) to blood significantly reduced fibrin deposition, variable platelet aggregation and aTF + aFXI almost abolished thrombus formation, showing synergy between coagulation pathways. A scarce effect of aTF over sub-endothelial regions, more abundant in tissue TF and bundles of laminin and collagen type I than deep intima, may suggest tissue thrombogenicity as molecular structure-related. Consistently with TF-related vascular function and expression of P2X7, the sections from CPL but not IMA tissue cultures pre-treated with the P2X7 antagonist A740003 demonstrated poor thrombogenesis in flow experiments. These data hint to local targeting studies on P2X7 modulation for atherothrombosis prevention/therapy.

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