Analysis of blood clot degradation fragment sizes in relation to plasma flow velocity

General Physiology and Biophysics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 237-245

  Bajd, Franci ^a   Vidmar, Jernej ^a,b   Blinc, Aleš ^c   Serša, Igor ^a,d  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^d EN FIST   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Blood clot; Degradation size distribution; Optical microscopy; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAMINAR FLOW; MICROSCOPY; NORMAL HUMAN; THEORETICAL MODEL; TURBULENT FLOW;

ANIMALS; BLOOD COAGULATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VISCOSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MECHANICAL THROMBOLYSIS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84867807298     PISSN: 02315882     EISSN: 13384325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4149/gpb-2012-028     Document Type: Article

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