The degree of red blood cell aggregation on peripheral blood glass slides corresponds to inter-erythrocyte cohesive forces in laminar flow

Thrombosis Research

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 37-44

  Berliner, Shlomo ^a   Ben Ami, Ronen ^a   Samocha Bonet, Dorit ^a   Abu Abeid, Subchi ^a   Schechner, Vered ^b   Beigel, Yitzhak ^b   Shapira, Itzhak ^a   Yedgar, Saul ^c   Barshtein, Gershon ^c  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

AAS; average aggregate size; CCD; cell flow properties analyzer; CFA; charge coupled device; Erythrocyte aggregation; familial hypercholesterolemia; FH; Inter erythrocyte cohesive forces; PBS; phosphate buffered saline; RBC; red blood cell; SAF

Indexed keywords

LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

APHERESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD CELL; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAMINAR FLOW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBESITY; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRATIFICATION;

CELL ADHESION; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; ERYTHROCYTES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; HYPERLIPOPROTEINEMIA TYPE II; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OBESITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 3242679978     PISSN: 00493848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thromres.2004.04.009     Document Type: Article

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