The plasma protein fibrinogen stabilizes clusters of red blood cells in microcapillary flows

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Brust, M ^a   Aouane, O ^a,b,f   Thiebaud M ^b   Flormann, D ^a   Verdier, C ^b   Kaestner, L ^c   Laschke, M W ^c   Selmi, H ^d,e   Benyoussef, A ^f   Podgorski, T ^b   Coupier, G ^b   Misbah, C ^b   Wagner, C ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LIPHY   (France)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

^e Laboratoire D'Ingénierie Mathématique Ecole Polytechnique de Tunisie ^*  (Saudi Arabia)

^f FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FIBRINOGEN; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE DEXTRAN; FLUORESCENT DYE; OXYGEN;

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROVASCULATURE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; ANIMALS; DEXTRANS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; ERYTHROCYTES; FIBRINOGEN; FLUORESCEIN-5-ISOTHIOCYANATE; FLUORESCENT DYES; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; MICE; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROVESSELS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; OXYGEN; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84896323650     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04348     Document Type: Article

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