The characterization of the erythrocytes' viscoelastic properties is studied from the perspective of bounded correlated random walk (Brownian motion), based on the assumption that diffractometric data involves both deterministic and stochastic components. The photometric readings are obtained by ektacytometry over several millions of shear elongated cells, using a home-made device called Erythrodeformeter. The results suggest that the samples from healthy donors are intrinsically unpredictable (ordinary Brownian motion), while when studying beta thalassemic samples, these exhibit not only a great sensitivity to initial conditions (fractional Brownian motion) but also chaotic behavior. These results could allow us to claim that we have linked nonlinear tools with clinical aspects of the erythrocytes rheological properties. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Documento: | Artículo |
Título: | Self-organizing dynamics of human erythrocytes under shear stress |
Autor: | Korol, A.M.; Foresto, P.; Rosso, O.A. |
Filiación: | Departamento de Matemática y Estadística, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531, 2000 Rosario, Argentina Departamento de Bioquímica Clínica, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmáceuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531, 2000 Rosario, Argentina Chaos and Biology Group, Instituto de Cálculo, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Pabellon II, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina Centre for Bioinformatics, Biomarker Discovery and Information-Based Medicine, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University Drive, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia |
Palabras clave: | Brownian motion; Dynamic systems; Fractals; Optical properties; Time series; Rheology; Brownian motion; Brownian motions; Chaotic behaviors; Clinical aspects; Dynamic systems; Ektacytometry; Fractals; Fractional Brownian motion; Human erythrocytes; Initial conditions; Optical properties; Random Walks; Rheological properties; Self-Organizing; Stochastic components; Time series; Visco-elastic properties; Brownian movement |
Año: | 2007 |
Volumen: | 386 |
Número: | 2 |
Página de inicio: | 770 |
Página de fin: | 775 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2007.08.045 |
Título revista: | Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications |
Título revista abreviado: | Phys A Stat Mech Appl |
ISSN: | 03784371 |
CODEN: | PHYAD |
Registro: | https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_03784371_v386_n2_p770_Korol |