Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2018 Jul 4;118(8):1397–1408. doi: 10.1055/s-0038-1661393

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which permits unrestricted reproduction and distribution, for non-commercial purposes only; and use and reproduction, but not distribution, of adapted material for non-commercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited.

PMC Copyright notice

Fig. 2 — Multimeric pattern of von Willebrand factor (VWF) after separation on 0.8% agarose gel and the corresponding densitometric curves. ( A ) Characteristic plasma sample of a patient with acute decompensation (AD), stable (ST) cirrhosis and healthy control. The presence of ultra-large molecular weight multimers (ULMWM) is seen in the sample of the AD patient. No ULMWM can be seen in the sample of ST cirrhosis or healthy control. The dotted lines across the lanes represent critical separation on the distribution ladder according to the number of the corresponding bands. The critical separation lines: #1 = 1 dimer; #6 = 6 dimers and #10 = 10 dimers. Dimers < 6 are defined as low molecular weight multimers (LMWM), dimers between 6 and 10 defined as intermediate molecular weight multimers (IMWM) and dimers > 10 defined as high molecular weight multimers (HMWM) including ULMWM. ( B ) The corresponding densitometric curves indicated with different lines and areas as marked at the bottom of A .