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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 28.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Biomed Eng. 2013 Oct 12;42(2):368–387. doi: 10.1007/s10439-013-0922-3

TABLE 1.

Typical average plasma and RBC properties in health.

Plasma viscosity 0.0012 Pa · s
RBC cytosol 0.006 Pa · s
Temperature 37 °C
RBC membrane Young’s modulus 18.9 × 10−6 N/m
RBC membrane bending rigidity 3.0 × 10−19 J
RBC membrane viscosity 2.2 × 10−8 Pa · s · m