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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nanomedicine (Lond). 2014 Jan;9(1):121–134. doi: 10.2217/nnm.13.191

Figure 3. Effect of shape on nanoparticle margination.

Figure 3

Spherical nanoparticles tend to remain in the center of the flow. Variable forces and torques exerted on rods under flow allow them to marginate and drift towards the vessel wall, where they are able to bind to wall receptors or extravasate through gaps between cells of the endothelium.