Ultrastructural changes to rabbit fibrin and platelets due to aspartame

Ultrastructural Pathology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 77-83

  Pretorius, E ^a,c   Humphries, P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Aspartame; Fibrin; Platelets; Rabbit animal model; Scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ASPARTAME; ASPARTIC ACID; FIBRIN; FIBRINOGEN; PHENYLALANINE; THROMBIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; CATALYST; FEMALE; FIBRIN FORMATION; HEMOSTASIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WELLBEING;

ANIMALS; ASPARTAME; BLOOD COAGULATION; BLOOD PLATELETS; FEMALE; FIBRIN; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; RABBITS; SWEETENING AGENTS;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 34447130295     PISSN: 01913123     EISSN: 15210758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01913120701376105     Document Type: Article

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