A team from Würzburg has fundamentally changed our understanding of platelet biology. The researchers demonstrate that the ...

Platelets are small, anucleate blood cells that play an essential role in hemostasis. Their primary task is to recognize vascular injury, become activated, and aggregate via their surface receptor ...

Scientists have identified novel treatments to reduce bleeding in trauma and severe infections. The research, from Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientists ...

Platelets are a type of blood cell. They play an important role in healing injuries that result in bleeding. Platelets help your body to form blood clots and stop bleeding. Some people’s platelets don ...

Have you ever been in a classroom and wondered to yourself whether the information being presented could be wrong? During graduate school, I audited a medical school class in which the professor ...

Platelets are small types of blood cells that prevent excessive bleeding. It’s possible to develop low or high platelet counts related to a number of health conditions. Platelets are one of the main ...

Scientists at Uppsala University have discovered a hitherto unknown function of blood platelets in cancer. In mouse models, these platelets have proved to help preserve the vascular barrier which ...

Figure 1: Presence of Cx40 and effects of its inhibition on platelet function. Figure 3: Inhibition or deletion of Cx40 reduces platelet inside-out signalling and granule secretion. The observed ...

Ado-trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) treatment results in grade 3-4 thrombocytopenia in 8%-13% of patients. Prior in vitro studies reported T-DM1 inhibition of megakaryocyte maturation as the cause of ...