Comparison of Platelet Ultrastructure and Elastic Properties in Thrombo-Embolic Ischemic Stroke and Smoking Using Atomic Force and Scanning Electron Microscopy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Du Plooy, Jeanette Noel ^a   Buys, Antoinette ^a   Duim, Wiebren ^b   Pretorius, Etheresia ^a  

^a University of Pretoria   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL SHAPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELASTICITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SMOKING; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOCYTE STRUCTURE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; YOUNG MODULUS;

BLOOD PLATELETS; ELASTIC MODULUS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; SMOKING; STROKE;

EID: 84880487120     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069774     Document Type: Article

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