Venous shear stress enhances platelet mediated staphylococcal adhesion to artificial and damaged biological surfaces.

Fallgren, Corina; Ljungh, Asa; Shenkman, Boris; Varon, David; Savion, Naphtali

Fallgren, Corina; Ljungh, Asa; Shenkman, Boris; Varon, David; Savion, Naphtali.

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Fallgren C; Department of Medical Microbiology, Dermatology and Infection, University of Lund, Sweden.

Biomaterials ; 23(23): 4581-9, 2002 Dec.

Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12322979

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Bacterial Adhesion; Blood Platelets/metabolism; Staphylococcus/physiology; Animals; Aorta/cytology; Biotinylation; Blood Platelets/microbiology; Cattle; Cell Adhesion; Cells, Cultured; Endothelium, Vascular/cytology; Endothelium, Vascular/microbiology; Extracellular Matrix/metabolism; Kinetics; Peptide Fragments/pharmacology; Polystyrenes/metabolism; Polystyrenes/pharmacology; Recombinant Proteins/pharmacology; Staphylococcus/cytology; Stress, Mechanical; Time Factors; Veins/cytology; von Willebrand Factor/pharmacology

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Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Staphylococcus / Blood Platelets / Bacterial Adhesion Limits: Animals Language: En Journal: Biomaterials Year: 2002 Document type: Article Affiliation country: Sweden Country of publication: Netherlands

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