{"title":"Optical Tweezers as a tool to differentiate healthy / diabetic individuals via measuring elasticity of the erythrocyte cell membrane","authors":"Nahúm Méndez Alba, J. L. H. Pozos","doi":"10.1364/OMA.2019.AT3E.7","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Erythrocyte membrane elasticity is studied using a dual-optical tweezer to perform deformation of RBC. Results show that is possible to identify diabetic individuals compared to healthy ones in 90% of the cases studied.","PeriodicalId":8973,"journal":{"name":"Biophotonics Congress: Optics in the Life Sciences Congress 2019 (BODA,BRAIN,NTM,OMA,OMP)","volume":"75 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Biophotonics Congress: Optics in the Life Sciences Congress 2019 (BODA,BRAIN,NTM,OMA,OMP)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1364/OMA.2019.AT3E.7","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Erythrocyte membrane elasticity is studied using a dual-optical tweezer to perform deformation of RBC. Results show that is possible to identify diabetic individuals compared to healthy ones in 90% of the cases studied.