Table 3.

Antithrombotic efficiencies of aptamer RA-36 and bivalirudin: mean area of thrombus at the beginning and at the end of the observation.

Group	Mean area of thrombus, mm2
	The first 5 min	The last 5 min
Control	0.26 ± 0.09	0.62 ± 0.18
Bivalirudin 0.19 mg/kg	0.27 ± 0.09	0.38 ± 0.17
Bivalirudin 0.38 mg/kg	0.22 ± 0.10	0.39 ± 0.15
Bivalirudin 0.75 mg/kg	0.17 ± 0.07	0.28 ± 0.18
Aptamer RA-36 7.0 mg/kg	0.21 ± 0.07	0.5 ± 0.2
Aptamer RA-36 35 mg/kg	0.12 ± 0.12	0.3 ± 0.3
Aptamer RA-36 70 mg/kg	0.10 ± 0.09	0.15 ± 0.16