Platelet Membrane Fluidity in Non-insulin-dependent Diabetes Mellitus (NIDDM) Subjects, in Subjects with Vascular Atherosclerotic Disease (VAD) and in VAD Subjects with NIDDM

G. Caimi; B. Canino; M. Montana; A. Catania; R. Lo Presti

doi:10.1055/s-0037-1614647

Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Table of Contents

Thromb Haemost 1999; 82(01): 149
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1614647

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Platelet Membrane Fluidity in Non-insulin-dependent Diabetes Mellitus (NIDDM) Subjects, in Subjects with Vascular Atherosclerotic Disease (VAD) and in VAD Subjects with NIDDM

Authors

G. Caimi

¹From the Istituto di Clinica Medica e Malattie Cardiovascolari, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
B. Canino

¹From the Istituto di Clinica Medica e Malattie Cardiovascolari, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
M. Montana

¹From the Istituto di Clinica Medica e Malattie Cardiovascolari, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
A. Catania

¹From the Istituto di Clinica Medica e Malattie Cardiovascolari, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
R. Lo Presti

¹From the Istituto di Clinica Medica e Malattie Cardiovascolari, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

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