Structural basis for the nonlinear mechanics of fibrin networks under compression

Biomaterials

Volumn 35, Issue 25, 2014, Pages 6739-6749

  Kim, Oleg V ^a   Litvinov, Rustem I ^b   Weisel, John W ^b   Alber, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Compression; Confocal microscopy; Fibrin networks; Mechanical response; Network structure; Rheology

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BUCKLING; COMPACTION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ELASTICITY; HARDENING; RHEOLOGY; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); VISCOELASTICITY;

COMPRESSIVE DEFORMATIONS; FIBRIN NETWORK; MECHANICAL RESPONSE; NETWORK STRUCTURES; NON-LINEAR VISCOELASTICITY; NONLINEAR MECHANICAL RESPONSE; RHEOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS; VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES;

COMPLEX NETWORKS;

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 13A; FIBRIN; BIOMATERIAL; POLYMER; VISCOELASTIC SUBSTANCE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; DECOMPRESSION; FIBRIN CLOT; FLOW KINETICS; HUMAN; HYSTERESIS; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RIGIDITY; THICKNESS; VISCOELASTICITY; YOUNG MODULUS; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD CLOTTING; CHEMISTRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MECHANICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BLOOD COAGULATION; FIBRIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; POLYMERS; RHEOLOGY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; VISCOELASTIC SUBSTANCES;

EID: 84902084602     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: 18785905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2014.04.056     Document Type: Article

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