Red blood cell aggregation quantitated via Myrenne aggregometer and yield shear stress

Biorheology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-35

  Lee, Byoung Kwon ^a,b   Alexy, Tamas ^a   Wenby, Rosalinda B ^a   Meiselman, Herbert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Inje University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

ESR; Myrenne aggregometer; Red cell aggregation; Yield stress

Indexed keywords

ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; PLASMA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHEAR STRESS; VISCOMETRY;

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 34248232483     PISSN: 0006355X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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