Fib420, the novel fibrinogen subclass: Newborn levels are higher than adult

Blood

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2609-2614

  Grieninger, Gerd ^a   Lu, Xianghan ^a   Cao, Yan ^a   Fu, Yiping ^a   Kudryk, Bohdan J ^a   Galanakis, Dennis K ^a   Hertzberg, Kathe M ^a  

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Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; ADULT; AGE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOMEOSTASIS; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEWBORN; PUERPERIUM;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POSTPARTUM PERIOD;

EID: 0030610893     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood.v90.7.2609.2609_2609_2614     Document Type: Article

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