An instability of the red blood cell shape
- 1 March 1985
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 57 (5) , 1739-1742
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.334447
Abstract
The infinitesimal stability of fluid vesicle shapes is studied as a function of vesicle volume and spontaneous membrane curvature at fixed area. It is found that the azimuthally symmetric shapes are infinitesimally unstable for some values of these parameters. A possible connection with the sickling of red blood cells is pointed out.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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