Adaptation of fibrous biopolymers to recurring increasing strains

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 30, 2013, Pages 12164-12165

  Weisel, John W ^a   Litvinov, Rustem I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPOLYMER; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 13A;

ADAPTATION; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; CELL MIGRATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CROSS LINKING; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; METASTASIS; NOTE; PLASTICITY; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84880688607     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1310351110     Document Type: Note

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