Preservation of 5300 year old red blood cells in the Iceman

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 75, 2012, Pages 2581-2590

  Janko, Marek ^a,b   Stark, Robert W ^a,b   Zink, Albert ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ancient erythrocytes; Atomic force microscope; Haemoglobin; Iceman; Protein degradation; Raman spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELLS; DEGRADATION; ELASTICITY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; TISSUE;

ANCIENT ERYTHROCYTES; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPE (AFM); HAEMOGLOBINS; ICEMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

BLOOD;

FIBRIN;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BLOOD CLOT; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE PRESERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PALEOPATHOLOGY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84866252640     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2012.0174     Document Type: Article

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