Platelets are small anucleated blood cells responsible for stopping bleeding. They detect blood vessel damage and agglutinate, creating aggregates and stopping blood loss. This process is called ...

A Guadeloupe study found increased platelet activation and caspase-1 activity in adults with sickle cell disease at steady state, with hemolysis-linked associations concentrated among patients with ...

Future Microbiol. 2013;8(11):1431-1451. Bacterial contact with the platelets is a key event for the pathogenesis of sepsis, as deduced from the correlation between sepsis outcome and decreased ...

IF enhances the production of IPA from intestinal Clostridium sporogenes, which directly attenuates platelet activation and thrombosis, and alleviates microvascular thrombosis after I/R injury by ...

Study finds that a high-fat diet boosts platelet activation and tumor cell homing—effects reversible with diet change or platelet depletion. Study: The Impact of a High -Fat Diet and Platelet ...

The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has baffled researchers with its propensity to cause symptoms of ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

A new computational framework links the metabolic enzyme NNMT to coordinated platelet, neutrophil, and immune exhaustion ...

Despite being acaryote cell fragments, platelets share a number of properties of host defense with their big nucleated relatives and represent important elements in innate immunity. For these purposes ...