Rheological behavior of blood platelets in vivo

Issue title: New Methods in Biorheology. Proceedings of the International Symposium held in Nancy, France, 17–18 August 1983. A Satellite Symposium of the Fifth International Congress of Biorheology

Guest editors: J.F. Stoltz and E. Puchelle

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Slaaf, Dick W. | Tangelder, Geert Jan | Reneman, Robert S.

Affiliations: Departments of Biophysics and Physiology, University of Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Abstract: Blood platelets labeled in vivo with the fluorochrome acridine red can be localized objectively within a thin optical section, using fluorescence microscopy. This allows the study of the rheological behavior of platelets in vivo as exemplified by the assessment of the concentration distribution and the orientation of platelets flowing in small arterioles of the rabbit mesentery.

Keywords: blood platelets, rheology, in vivo, fluorescence

DOI: 10.3233/BIR-1984-23S126

Journal: Biorheology, vol. 23, no. s1, pp. 145-149, 1984