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EKTACYTOMETRY
Method in which cells (usually erythrocytes) are exposed to increasing shear stress and the laserdiffractionpatternthrough the suspension is recorded, it goes from circular to elliptical as shear increases. From these measurements a deformabilityindex for the cells can be derived.
This entry appears with alow from the Vocabulary of Cell and Molecular Biology