Thermal fluctuations of fibrin fibres at short time scales
Abstract
Fibrin clots are important adaptive structural elements during haemostasis and owe their physiological performance largely to their unique elastic properties (see ref. 1). The fibrin fibres in clots are self-assembled aggregates of fibrinogen monomers catalysed by the interaction with the enzyme thrombin. We investigated the dynamics of both individual fibrin fibres and whole networks with the passive particle tracking technique using an ultra-fast digital