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Microfluidic Flow Chambers Using Reconstituted Blood to Model Hemostasis and Platelet Transfusion In Vitro
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Published on: March 19, 2016

Platelet kinetics--1975

C A Ries

    Series Haematologica (1968)
    |January 1, 1975
    PubMed

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