Fibrin clots are equilibrium polymers that can be remodeled without proteolytic digestion

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Chernysh, Irina N ^a   Nagaswami, Chandrasekaran ^a   Purohit, Prashant K ^b   Weisel, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN; FIBRINOGEN; POLYMER; THROMBIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

BLOOD COAGULATION; FIBRIN; FIBRINOGEN; HUMANS; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMERS; PROTEOLYSIS; THROMBIN;

EID: 84870836758     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00879     Document Type: Article

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