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Blood Platelets

Known as: Platelet, Blood, Bizzozero's corpuscle/cell, Deetjeen's body 
An irregular, disc-shaped element in the blood that assists in blood clotting. Platelets are not blood cells, they are fragments of large bone marrow… 
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Blood coagulationClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium TerminologyCytochrome C oxidase:CCnc:Pt:Platelets:QnDrug induced platelet Ab:ACnc:Pt:Ser:Qn

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Review
2011
Review
2011
Mean platelet volume: a link between thrombosis and inflammation?
Platelet activation is a link in the pathophysiology of diseases prone to thrombosis and inflammation. Numerous platelet markers… 
Review
2006
Review
2006
Evolutionary aspects of diet, the omega-6/omega-3 ratio and genetic variation: nutritional implications for chronic diseases.
  • A. Simopoulos
  • Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine…
  • 2006
  • Corpus ID: 15875656
Review
2000
Review
2000
Biological effects of resveratrol.
Review
1998
Review
1998
Phosphoinositide kinases.
Phosphatidylinositol, a component of eukaryotic cell membranes, is unique among phospholipids in that its head group can be… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Randomised placebo-controlled and balloon-angioplasty-controlled trial to assess safety of coronary stenting with use of platelet glycoprotein-IIb/IIIa blockade
Review
1996
Review
1996
Platelets and shear stress.
C LINICAL BLEEDING or thrombosis results from a disturbance in the balance between a complex network of procoagulant and… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
The proto-oncogene c-kit encoding a transmembrane tyrosine kinase receptor maps to the mouse W locus
Mice carrying mutations at the W locus located on chromosome 5 are characterized by severe macrocytic anaemia, lack of hair… 
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
Prostaglandin endoperoxides. Novel transformations of arachidonic acid in human platelets.
Arachidonic acid incubated with human platelets was converted into three compounds, 12L-hydroxy-5,8,10,14-eicosatetraenoic acid… 
Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
Aspirin selectively inhibits prostaglandin production in human platelets.
Platelets in the blood of volunteers who have taken aspirin can no longer produce prostaglandins. 
Highly Cited
1961
Highly Cited
1961
The partial thromboplastin time with kaolin. A simple screening test for first stage plasma clotting factor deficiencies.
The partial thromboplastin time (PPT) test consists of recalcifying plasma in the presence of a lipid reagent that supplies… 
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