Thixotropic properties of whole blood from healthy human subjects

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-1987

Abstract

The steady state non-Newtonian viscosity of whole human blood has been widely studied as a function of the shear rate; and used to characterize the blood in various pathological disorders. In our previous studies, we demonstrated that blood is a thixotropic fluid. Its time-dependency and shear rate dependency of rheological behavior can be represented by an equation developed by Huang. Parameters of the equation can be used for the characterization of an individual's blood. They provide information, such as the kinetic rate constant of breakdown of RBC rouleaux to individual erythrocytes and the relative amount of rouleau formation in the dynamic equilibrium between rouleaux and individual erythrocytes. In this communication, the thixotropic parameters from blood samples of fifteen apparently healthy human subjects were investigated. When compared to the use of apparent viscosity values for the correlation with a pathological disorder, thixotropic parameters are preferable. The mean values of thixotropic parameters obtained from apparently healthy human subjects provide a base for comparison with the same parameters as obtained from blood samples of patients with certain pathological disorders involving the circulation. © 1987.

Identifier

0006278994 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Biorheology

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.3233/BIR-1987-24630

ISSN

0006355X

PubMed ID

3502773

First Page

795

Last Page

801

Issue

6

Volume

24

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