Thrombolytic properties of leukocytes from peripheral blood in healthy subjects and in patients with acute cerebral ischemia

Thrombosis Research

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 29-37

  Lichy, Christoph ^a   Wagner, Simone ^a   Hacke, Werner ^a   Grau, Armin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Miniplasmin; Polymorphonuclear leukocytes; Stroke; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 ANTIPLASMIN; ALTEPLASE; ELASTASE; PLASMINOGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOTHESIS; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0034000174     PISSN: 00493848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0049-3848(99)00218-2     Document Type: Article

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