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ArticleScience advances2020

Rupture of blood clots: Mechanics and pathophysiology.

Valerie Tutwiler, Jaspreet Singh, Rustem I Litvinov, John L Bassani, Prashant K Purohit, John W Weisel

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Article in Science advances, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.

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51citing papers in PubMed
6.7field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

51 citing papers in PubMed, 99 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Rupture mechanics of blood clot fibrin fibers: A coarse-grained model study.Journal of the mechanics and physics of solids · 2025
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  16. Deconstructing fibrin(ogen) structure.Journal of thrombosis and haemostasis : JTH · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Valerie TutwilerDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1213-4447
Jaspreet SinghDepartment of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7937-0201
Rustem I LitvinovDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0643-1496
John L BassaniDepartment of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6119-9816
Prashant K PurohitDepartment of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1939-907X
John W WeiselDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9628-257X
University of Pennsylvania · USKazan Federal University · RU

Funding

Experiment-based multi-scale modeling of the tensile and compressive deformations of fibrinR01HL135254 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI PUROHIT, PRASHANT KISHORE · 2017 to 2020
$1.6M
Scanning Electron MicroscopeS10OD018041 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI WEISEL, JOHN W · 2014 to 2014
$382k
Systematic multidisciplinary approach to study traumatic bleeding as a complex structural and biomechanical problemK99HL148646 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI TUTWILER, VALERIE · 2019 to 2019
$92k
NHLBI NIH HHS K99 HL148646NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL135254NIH HHS S10 OD018041
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fibrin is the three-dimensional mechanical scaffold of protective blood clots that stop bleeding and pathological thrombi that obstruct blood vessels. Fibrin must be mechanically tough to withstand rupture, after which life-threatening pieces (thrombotic emboli) are carried downstream by blood flow. Despite multiple studies on fibrin viscoelasticity, mechanisms of fibrin rupture remain unknown. Here, we examined mechanically and structurally the strain-driven rupture of human blood plasma-derived fibrin clots where clotting was triggered with tissue factor. Toughness, i.e., resistance to rupture, quantified by the critical energy release rate (a measure of the propensity for clot embolization) of physiologically relevant fibrin gels was determined to be 7.6 ± 0.45 J/m

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ThrombosisBlood CoagulationFibrinHumansFibrin

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PMID32923647
PMCPMC7449685
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