Blood Clot
by Dee Breger
Title
Blood Clot
Artist
Dee Breger
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
The arterial thrombus in this image shows erythrocytes, the red blood cells that carry oxygen to all other body cells, platelets (here colored blue) that serve to plug small tears in tissues, and fibrin (yellow threads), the "clotting factor" that forms to bind the cells together. Red cells sometimes stack into columns called Rouleaux Formations, one of which can be seen at the top of the image. This stack is beginning to be pulled apart by the strands of fibrin. SEM x 6500.
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September 16th, 2018
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