Dynamic imaging of fibrin network formation correlated with other measures of polymerization

Blood

Volumn 111, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 4854-4861

  Chernysh, Irina N ^a   Weisel, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELASTICITY; IMAGE PROCESSING; KINETICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; PHOTOMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BLOOD COAGULATION; ELASTICITY; FIBRIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 46749153500     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2007-08-105247     Document Type: Article

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