Effect of cigarette smoking on plasma fibrin clot permeability and susceptibility to lysis

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1289-1291

  Undas, Anetta ^a   Topór Madry, Roman ^a   Tracz, Wieslawa ^a   Pasowicz, Mieczyslaw ^b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^b Krakowski Szpital Specjalistyczny Im Jana Pawła II   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FIBRINOGEN;

ADULT; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBRIN CLOT; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FIBRINOLYSIS; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LETTER; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BLOOD COAGULATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FIBRIN; FIBRINOLYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERMEABILITY; SMOKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72949084189     PISSN: 03406245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1160/TH09-03-0187     Document Type: Letter

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