Visualization and identification of the structures formed during early stages of fibrin polymerization

Blood

Volumn 117, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 4609-4614

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN; MONOMER; OLIGOMER;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; FIBER; FIBRIN POLYMERIZATION; GEL; HEMOSTASIS; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTOFIBRIL; SPINNING DISK CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TURBIDITY;

EID: 79955967930     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2010-07-297671     Document Type: Article

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