Platelet storage - Time to come in from the cold?

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 348, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 2032-2033

  Snyder, Edward L ^a   Rinder, Henry M ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN IB; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOENGINEERING; FREEZING; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION; THROMBOCYTE PRESERVATION; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

EID: 0038221023     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcibr035099     Document Type: Article

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