Comparative ultrastructural analyses of mouse, rabbit, and human platelets and fibrin networks

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 823-827

  Pretorius, E ^a,c   Humphries, P ^a,b   Ekpo, O E ^a   Smit, E ^a   Van Der Merwe, C F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Fibrin; Human; Mouse; Platelets; Rabbit; Scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

MAMMALS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; PLATELETS;

COAGULATION PROCESS; FIBRIN; FIBRIN NETWORK; HAEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; MOUSE; RABBIT; SCANNING ELECTRONS; ULTRASTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; VASCULAR COMPLICATIONS;

SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

FIBRIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FIBRIN CLOT; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE ANALYSIS AND ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 34848860790     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: 10970029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.20482     Document Type: Article

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