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If there were any misplayed notes or misplucked strings, this listener blissfully unaware of them.

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From the resulting thrombogram the following parameters were calculated: lag time (min), peak (nM, maximal thrombin concentration), peak-endogenous thrombin potential (ETP, nM.min, area under the thrombin curve until the peak is reached), time to peak (min) and velocity (nM/min, maximal rate of thrombin generation).