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20091000

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-1-21
pubmed:abstractText
This paper reports the development of a platform technology for measuring platelet function and aggregation based on localized strain rate micro-gradients. Recent experimental findings within our laboratories have identified a key role for strain rate micro-gradients in focally triggering initial recruitment and subsequent aggregation of discoid platelets at sites of blood vessel injury. We present the design justification, hydrodynamic characterization and experimental validation of a microfluidic device incorporating contraction-expansion geometries that generate strain rate conditions mimicking the effects of pathological changes in blood vessel geometry. Blood perfusion through this device supports our published findings of both in vivo and in vitro platelet aggregation and confirms a critical requirement for the coupling of blood flow acceleration to downstream deceleration for the initiation and stabilization of platelet aggregation, in the absence of soluble platelet agonists. The microfluidics platform presented will facilitate the detailed analysis of the effects of hemodynamic parameters on the rate and extent of platelet aggregation and will be a useful tool to elucidate the hemodynamic and platelet mechano-transduction mechanisms, underlying this shear-dependent process.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
1473-0197
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
7
pubmed:volume
10
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
291-302
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-1-26
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
A microfluidics device to monitor platelet aggregation dynamics in response to strain rate micro-gradients in flowing blood.
pubmed:affiliation
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. tovar.lopez.fj@gmail.com
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't