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SUBMITTER: Chernysh IN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7083848 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chernysh Irina N IN Nagaswami Chandrasekaran C Kosolapova Sofia S Peshkova Alina D AD Cuker Adam A Cines Douglas B DB Cambor Carolyn L CL Litvinov Rustem I RI Weisel John W JW
Scientific reports 20200320 1
Although arterial and venous thromboembolic disorders are among the most frequent causes of mortality and morbidity, there has been little description of how the composition of thrombi and emboli depends on their vascular origin and age. We quantified the structure and composition of arterial and venous thrombi and pulmonary emboli using high-resolution scanning electron microscopy. Arterial thrombi contained a surprisingly large amount of fibrin, in addition to platelets. The composition of pul ...[more]