Dear colleagues,
the images show fibrous material after 1h contact with whole blood. Samples where washed with PBS and prepared for SEM observations: fixing with PFA, dehydration with graded ethanol solutions, drying in HMDS, sputtering with gold.
The idea was to analyse quantity and morphology of surface-adhered platelets. There are samples where I observe many small objects (pointed with arrows) adhered to fibers. I wonder what it can be? Any ideas?
Dear Beata,
interesting question! Could it be fibrin clots?
Is it found in every tested material or just in some of them?
Best wishes,
Jana
Jana,
the objects are observed only on few samples, all of them were treated the same way. As far as I know fibrin morphology is similar to nanofibers.
Look like microorganisms (infected biological material) or maybe released platelet granules
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