Figure 5.
(A) Equilibrium shape of a model red blood cell generated using the mesoscopic model by Li et al. 109 for 5000 vertices. The total volume and surface area was constrained to 80 μm3 and 135 μm2, respectively. (B) Triangulated lattice in which beads are connected by springs. C. Snapshots of rolling uninfected and infected erythrocytes. (i) Snapshots of rolling uninfected erythrocytes are shown. The blue dots are markers on the membrane. (ii) Snapshots of flipping infected erythrocytes (uninfected erythrocytes with high Young's modulus) are shown. (iii) Snapshots of flipping infected erythrocytes with rigid parasite particles inside are shown. Figure reproduced from Ref 120.