AGGREGATION of platelets in the presence of adenosine diphosphate (ADP) appears to be important in hæmostasis and in the genesis of platelet thrombosis. There is evidence that this reaction is common ...
Proteolytic degradation products of fibrinogen, produced as a result of excessive fibrinolysis, have been demonstrated in the blood of cirrhotic patients. 7,8 Such degradation products, when formed in ...
A recently described hemorrhagic disorder characterized by defective platelet aggregation induced by collagen and epinephrine appears to be caused, in part, by the same abnormality induced by aspirin ...
San Francisco, CA - Researchers at UCSF have for the first time identified the gene encoding an ADP platelet receptor that is the target of antithrombotic agents. Their report appears in the January ...
The first study to examine the effects of whole-chocolate consumption on ex vivo platelet function has shown that dark chocolate acutely reduces collagen-stimulated platelet aggregation and reduces ...
What Is the Platelet Aggregation Test? A platelet aggregation test is a blood test that looks at how well your blood cells called platelets clump together and clot. It is sometimes called a platelet ...
Vegetarians, vegans, and omnivores given an oral choline supplement for 2 months have a more than tenfold increase in trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO), a metabolite derived from the gut microbiota that ...