Splenic filtration of red blood cells: Physics, chemistry, and biology need to go hand in hand

Affiliations

• ¹ Theoretical Medicine and Biosciences, Medical Faculty, Saarland University, Campus Saarland University Hospital, Homburg 66421, Germany.
• ² Dynamics of Fluids, Experimental Physics, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology, Saarland University, Saarbruecken 66123, Germany.
• ³ Biological Station Roscoff, Sorbonne University, CNRS, UMR8227, Laboratory of Integrative Biology and Marine Models, Roscoff 29680, France.
• ⁴ Laboratory of Excellence Globule rouge: Biogenèse et pathologies du globule rouge, Paris 75000, France.
• ⁵ Laboratory Interuniversitaire de Biologie de la Motricité, UR7424, Vascular Biology and Red Blood Cell team, Laennec Medical School, University of Lyon 1, Lyon 69372, France.
• ⁶ Red Blood Cell Group, Institute of Veterinary Physiology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zürich, Zürich 8057, Switzerland.
• ⁷ Biorheology Research Laboratory, Faculty of Health, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD 4222, Australia.