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Fibrinogen post-translational modifications are biochemical determinants of fibrin clot properties and interactions

Margarita Tenopoulou1

  • 1Laboratory of Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, Greece.

The FEBS Journal
|August 24, 2024
PubMed

Keywords:
fibrin clot propertiesfibrinogenpost‐translational modificationsthrombosis

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