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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 2.
Published in final edited form as: Soft Matter. 2012 Mar 6;8(16):10.1039/C2SM07294G. doi: 10.1039/C2SM07294G

Fig. 5.

Fig. 5

Final morphologies of the “sickle” (upper) and “holly leaf” (lower) shapes of deoxygenated SS-RBC for different values of cell membrane shear modulus. The “sickle” shape of SS-RBC corresponds to low mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration value (32 g dL−1) and the shear modulus of the cells shown above is set to 20μ0, 40μ0 and 70μ0 according to experimental measurements.4 The “holly leaf” shape of SS-RBC corresponds to medium mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration and the shear modulus is set to 30μ0, 60μ0 and 120μ0. We have also included a non-symmetric case in the fourth plot representing a cell morphology with the post-homogeneous nucleus off the cell center with shear modulus 60μ0.