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A Matrigel-Based Tube Formation Assay to Assess the Vasculogenic Activity of Tumor Cells
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[The thromboplastic activity of normal and tumorous human tissues]
Gematologiia I Transfuziologiia
|February 1, 1993
Abstract:
The study was made of thromboplastic activity of normal, pathological and tumor human tissues using a hemocoagulatory test-system specifically sensitive to apoprotein III-containing membrane structures. It is established that thromboplastic activity of membrane fragments can be inhibited by native cell components. Blood coagulation and fibrin deposition in tissues can go without cell damaging under initiation by increased permeability of vascular walls and plasma contact with surface of the cells located extravascularly.
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