Effects of red blood cell aggregation on myocardial hematocrit gradient using two approaches to increase aggregation

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 290, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Yalcin, Ozlem ^a   Aydin, Funda ^a   Ulker, Pinar ^a   Uyuklu, Mehmet ^a   Gungor, Firat ^a   Armstrong, Jonathan K ^b   Meiselman, Herbert J ^b   Baskurt, Oguz K ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dextran; Myocardium; Plasma viscosity; Pluronic F 98

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN; POLOXAMER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; HEART MUSCLE; HEMATOCRIT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLASMA VISCOSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; BLOOD VISCOSITY; DRUG EFFECT; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; IN VITRO STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VISCOSITY; DEXTRANS; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; EXCHANGE TRANSFUSION, WHOLE BLOOD; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; HEMATOCRIT; HEMORHEOLOGY; MALE; MYOCARDIUM; POLOXAMER;

EID: 33644855142     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00756.2005     Document Type: Article

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