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Endothelialized Microfluidics for Studying Microvascular Interactions in Hematologic Diseases
Published on: June 22, 2012
Impaired glycocalyx barrier properties and increased capillary tube haematocrit
Daniel Chappell1, Matthias Jacob, Oliver Paul
1Clinic of Anaesthesiology, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Nussbaumstrasse 20, 80336 Munich, Germany. daniel.chappell@med.unimuenchen.de
The Journal of Physiology
|August 16, 2008
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