Fiber depolymerization: fracture, fragments, vanishing times, and stochastics in sickle hemoglobin

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 655-670

  Wang, Jiang Cheng ^a   Kwong, Suzanna ^a   Ferrone, Frank A ^b   Turner, Matthew S ^c   Briehl, Robin W ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 58849106338     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

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