Measurement of red blood cell aggregation in disposable capillary tubes

Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 295-305

  Baskurt, Oguz K ^a   Uyuklu, Mehmet ^b   Ozdem, Sebahat ^b   Meiselman, Herbert J ^c  

^a KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute phase response; disease activity; erythrocyte aggregation; erythrocyte sedimentation rate

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CAPILLARY TUBE ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGOMETER; CATHETERS AND TUBES; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN;

BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 79959225053     PISSN: 13860291     EISSN: 18758622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/CH-2011-1411     Document Type: Article

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