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Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 208108, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/208108
Review Article

Accelerated Fibrinolysis and Its Propagation on Vascular Endothelial Cells by Secreted and Retained tPA

Tetsumei Urano and Yuko Suzuki

Department of Medical Physiology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handayama, Higashi-ku, Hamamatsu 431-3192, Japan

Received 5 April 2012; Revised 11 July 2012; Accepted 20 July 2012

Academic Editor: Robert J. Parmer

Copyright © 2012 Tetsumei Urano and Yuko Suzuki. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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