Erythrocyte aggregation: Basic aspects and clinical importance

Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation

Volumn 53, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 23-37

  Baskurt, Oguz K ^a   Meiselman, Herbert J ^b  

^a KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

aggregability; hemorheology; Inflammation; tissue perfusion

Indexed keywords

PLASMA PROTEIN; POLYMER;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CENTRIFUGATION; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGABILITY; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; ERYTHROCYTE FUNCTION AND CHARACTERISTICS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; METABOLIC DISORDER; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SYLLECTOMETRY; TISSUE BLOOD FLOW; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VISCOMETRY;

BLOOD VISCOSITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIABETES MELLITUS; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION;

EID: 84872905770     PISSN: 13860291     EISSN: 18758622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/CH-2012-1573     Document Type: Article

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