Nanoparticles That Sense Thrombin Activity As Synthetic Urinary Biomarkers of Thrombosis

Thrombin is a serine protease and regulator of hemostasis that plays a critical role in the formation of obstructive blood clots, or thrombosis, that is a life-threatening condition associated with numerous diseases such as atherosclerosis and stroke. To detect thrombi in living animals, we design a...

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Main Authors: Kwong, Gabriel A. (Contributor), Wood, David K. (Contributor), Lin, Kevin Yu-Ming (Contributor), Bhatia, Sangeeta N (Author), Warren, Andrew D. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Medical Engineering & Science (Contributor), Whitaker College of Health Sciences and Technology (Contributor), Harvard University- (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor), Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT (Contributor), Warren, Andrew David (Contributor), Bhatia, Sangeeta N. (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: American Chemical Society (ACS), 2013-11-12T17:46:19Z.
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