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BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 89, Issue 2, Pages 1055-1066Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.104.056036
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We report a detailed study of the behavior ( shapes, experienced forces, velocities) of giant lipid vesicles subjected to a shear. flow close to a wall. Vesicle buoyancy, size, and reduced volume were separately varied. We show that vesicles are deformed by the. flow and exhibit a tank- treading motion with steady orientation. Their shapes are characterized by two nondimensional parameters: the reduced volume and the ratio of the shear stress with the hydrostatic pressure. We confirm the existence of a force, able to lift away nonspherical buoyant vesicles from the substrate. We give the functional variation and the value of this lift force ( up to 150 pN in our experimental conditions) as a function of the relevant physical parameters: vesicle-substrate distance, wall shear rate, viscosity of the solution, vesicle size, and reduced volume. Circulating deformable cells disclosing a nonspherical shape also experience this force of viscous origin, which contributes to take them away from the endothelium and should be taken into account in studies on cell adhesion in. flow chambers, where cells membrane and the adhesive substrate are in relative motion. Finally, the kinematics of vesicles along the. flow direction can be described in a. first approximation with a model of rigid spheres.
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