{"title":"Measurements of oxygen tension in muscle.","authors":"A M Ehrly","doi":"10.3233/bir-1984-23s134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/bir-1984-23s134","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79205,"journal":{"name":"Biorheology. Supplement : the official journal of the International Society of Biorheology","volume":"1 ","pages":"201-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3233/bir-1984-23s134","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17647857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Surface rheological observations on human plasma.","authors":"A Matrai, B Warburton, J A Dormandy","doi":"10.3233/bir-1984-23s117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/bir-1984-23s117","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The weak interactions between plasma proteins are of possible importance both in haemorheology and in the pathology of several diseases. The use of surface rheology is a convenient way to study the forces arising between surface adsorbed protein molecules. A surface rheological measuring head has been designed for the Contraves LS-30 viscometer. Plasma samples of healthy human subjects showed a rapidly developing viscous surface layer with a mean peak value of 2.10(-3) Ns/m surface viscosity at 30- 60 seconds. After that the viscosity of the surface layer gradually decreased to zero between 8-20 minutes. The rate of the observed decrease was not related to shearing. There was no difference between samples anticoagulated with heparin or EDTA. The time course of the described phenomenon coincides with that of thrombocyte and white cell adherence to solid surfaces exposed to plasma.</p>","PeriodicalId":79205,"journal":{"name":"Biorheology. Supplement : the official journal of the International Society of Biorheology","volume":"1 ","pages":"103-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3233/bir-1984-23s117","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17648307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F Jung, H G Roggenkamp, N Körber, R Schneider, H Kiesewetter
{"title":"The capillary tube plasma viscometer--an automatical instrument for measuring plasma viscosity.","authors":"F Jung, H G Roggenkamp, N Körber, R Schneider, H Kiesewetter","doi":"10.3233/bir-1984-23s120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/bir-1984-23s120","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A new capillary viscometer was developed to eliminate the measuring errors due to insufficient cleaning or the residue of cleaning solution in the capillary. A disposable polyurethane tube which can be discarded after each determination is used as a measuring chamber. This device has been constructed for bed-side application (light weight, dry, thermostat-controlled measuring capillaries, short measuring period, automated process, and easy operation). The PEARSON correlation coefficient for comparative measurements with the COULTER-HARKNESS viscometer was r = 0.979.</p>","PeriodicalId":79205,"journal":{"name":"Biorheology. Supplement : the official journal of the International Society of Biorheology","volume":"1 ","pages":"115-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3233/bir-1984-23s120","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17648310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applications of electron spin resonance spectroscopy to microrheology studies of membranes and cells.","authors":"F Leterrier, F Berleur, J Viret, D Daveloose","doi":"10.3233/bir-1984-23s155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/bir-1984-23s155","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>One of the most powerful tools for the study of the molecular dynamics and molecular organization of biological membranes is the spin label method which uses stable free radicals (nitroxides) studied by electron spin resonance spectroscopy. The spectra are very dependent on the mobility and orientation of these probes in a magnetic field. They give information on the tumbling rate of molecules in liquids, the membrane microviscosity, the order parameter of the phospholipid fatty acid chains, the activation energy of their rotation and their flexibility. The method has interesting applications in the rheological domain; for example it enables measurement of the internal viscosity of erythrocytes and red blood cell orientation in a Poiseulle flow.</p>","PeriodicalId":79205,"journal":{"name":"Biorheology. Supplement : the official journal of the International Society of Biorheology","volume":"1 ","pages":"309-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3233/bir-1984-23s155","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17157465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T Koyama, J Nitta, T Asakura, T Ushizaka, H Aizu, Y Kikuchi
{"title":"A grating laser microscope for measurements of blood flow velocity in microvessels.","authors":"T Koyama, J Nitta, T Asakura, T Ushizaka, H Aizu, Y Kikuchi","doi":"10.3233/bir-1984-23s124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/bir-1984-23s124","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A velocimeter for measurements of blood flow velocity in microvessels was constructed with a microscope, a grating, a photomultiplier and a wave-period measuring circuit. A differential detection system seemed to be useful when the probing area was extremely small. A pulsating flow velocity contour and the velocity reduction caused by an application of noradrenaline were on-line recorded in an arteriole of foot web of frogs.</p>","PeriodicalId":79205,"journal":{"name":"Biorheology. Supplement : the official journal of the International Society of Biorheology","volume":"1 ","pages":"131-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3233/bir-1984-23s124","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17298980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biorheological methods employing the Weissenberg rheogoniometer.","authors":"R G King, S Chien, S Usami, A L Copley","doi":"10.3233/bir-1984-23s105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/bir-1984-23s105","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The theories and spatial concepts of Karl Weissenberg have been applied to the science of biorheology by employing the Weissenberg Rheogoniometer. Two main types of experimental methods have been used for the characterization of the bulk shear properties of biorheological fluids: (A) In continuous laminar shearing motion, the tangential and normal components of stress are measured at a series of rates of shear. From these parameters, the apparent viscosity, an elastic modulus and a recoverable strain, are calculated as functions of the rate of shear. In this continuous shear experiment, the physical structure present in the material at any given rate of shear may be quite different from the material in its rest state or at other rates of shear. (B) In harmonic oscillatory motion, the material is subjected to a harmonic laminar shear about its rest state at a number of frequencies and small strain amplitudes. From these experiments the dynamic moduli of viscosity and elasticity are calculated. Preparations of biological materials, such as whole blood and systems of blood components, both in health and disease states, have been investigated using methods A and B, together with studies of surface layers of plasma proteins at interfaces.</p>","PeriodicalId":79205,"journal":{"name":"Biorheology. Supplement : the official journal of the International Society of Biorheology","volume":"1 ","pages":"23-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3233/bir-1984-23s105","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17298981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Methods and instrumentation used in practice of clinical haemorheology.","authors":"L Dintenfass","doi":"10.3233/bir-1984-23s109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/bir-1984-23s109","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aim of practice of clinical haemorheology is to study patients who might present themselves with or without any clinical symptoms but who might suffer from silent or overt cardiovascular disorders, some forms of cancer, anxiety, etc. A presence and a prognosis of these disorders are linked to an increase and/or abnormality of one or more of the blood viscosity factors: blood viscosity, plasma viscosity, red cell aggregation and rigidity, platelet aggregation, ability for formation of thrombi, flow instability, etc. Hyperviscosaemia might be present in spite of normal or low viscosity of the whole blood. Different disorders can be described by 'profiles of viscosity factors' which form a rheological fingerprint specific to a particular disease or a group of disorders. Determination of viscosity factors is carried out utilizing a series of instruments: (a) rotational viscometers, (b) capillary viscometers, (c) erythrocyte sedimentation tubes in 20C and 37C water tanks, (d) variable frequency thrombo-viscometer, (e) slit-capillary photo-viscometer, etc. One known factor which is not measured routinely is 'inversion phenomenon', and this is due to complexity and expense of measurements. Biochemical studies, including fibrinogen assay and estimation of ABO blood groups, are carried out. Effect of drugs on blood viscosity factors can be studied in vitro or in vivo.</p>","PeriodicalId":79205,"journal":{"name":"Biorheology. Supplement : the official journal of the International Society of Biorheology","volume":"1 ","pages":"63-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3233/bir-1984-23s109","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17647688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J P Brancher, M Lucius, D Bernardin, R Raihani, J F Stoltz
{"title":"Conception and realization of a new viscometer using a magnetic fluid for measuring biological fluids.","authors":"J P Brancher, M Lucius, D Bernardin, R Raihani, J F Stoltz","doi":"10.3233/bir-1984-23s113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/bir-1984-23s113","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The viscometer described in this paper comprises a vertical cylinder containing the fluid to be tested and an inner, hollow cylinder floating in the fluid and filled with magnetic liquid. The magnetic liquid and inner cylinder are set in motion by applying a rotating magnetic field. Torque is balanced by the stresses in the fluid and the inertia of the rotating cylinder. The main characteristics of this new apparatus are: - possibility of applying various torques to the rotor. Measurements of angular velocity are made on the inner cylinder (in general, conventional viscometers are built on the opposite principle), - study in transient flow. Various measurements on Newtonian fluids (water, plasma, oils, etc.) and on blood suspensions have made it possible to improve the accuracy of the method.</p>","PeriodicalId":79205,"journal":{"name":"Biorheology. Supplement : the official journal of the International Society of Biorheology","volume":"1 ","pages":"83-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3233/bir-1984-23s113","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17647691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mechano-mathematical model of excitation-contraction coupling in muscle tissue.","authors":"A P Mihailova, N K Petrov","doi":"10.3233/bir-1984-23s135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/bir-1984-23s135","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A system of equations, describing the excitation-contraction coupling in cardiac muscle is obtained on the basis of a physiological model and of a thermodynamical one of a system with external control, the latter model being proposed by the authors. A single isometric contraction is modelled for latent, activation and relaxation periods. The obtained theoretical results coincide qualitatively with the experimental data.</p>","PeriodicalId":79205,"journal":{"name":"Biorheology. Supplement : the official journal of the International Society of Biorheology","volume":"1 ","pages":"209-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3233/bir-1984-23s135","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17647858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J P Arnould, J M Zahm, G Pottier, C Duvivier, E Puchelle
{"title":"A new apparatus for measuring the thread-forming property (spinability) of biological fluids.","authors":"J P Arnould, J M Zahm, G Pottier, C Duvivier, E Puchelle","doi":"10.3233/bir-1984-23s122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/bir-1984-23s122","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Spinability is a rheological parameter which characterizes the property of fluids to be drawn into threads when stretched. It has been shown that this property is of particular importance in the mucus transport process. This paper describes an automatic apparatus which measures the spinability of a calibrated volume (20 microliters) of sample at a stretching rate of 10 mm.sec.-1. The reproducibility of the measurements is analyzed on mucus simulants and on different types of bronchial mucus. Using this technique, we observed that the spinability of bronchial secretions is significantly correlated (r = 0.69, p less than 0.001) with their transport rate measured on the depleted frog palate. This device is suitable for measuring the spinability of all conductive types of mucus and other biological fluids.</p>","PeriodicalId":79205,"journal":{"name":"Biorheology. Supplement : the official journal of the International Society of Biorheology","volume":"1 ","pages":"123-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3233/bir-1984-23s122","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"17647983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}