BLOOD-PLATELETS AND TUBERCULOSIS

Platelets and Blood Cells

Wound healing is a complex response of the organism aiming to restore tissue integrity and organ function. In skin, vascular and inflammatory changes predominate for the first 3-5 days after wounding. The following granulation phase is characterized by new connective tissue production and re-epithelialization (1). In the mid-phase of cutaneous tissue repair, fibroblasts that have invaded the gr...

Blood Platelets and Systemic Sclerosis

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is characterized by a progressive fibrosis of the perivascular and interstitial connective tissues which can involve the skin, heart, lungs, kidneys, and the gastrointestinal tract. SSc is an uncommon, debilitating condition, associated to a vital risk linked to visceral extensions and has a high case-fatality rate among connectivitis. SSc begins in the vast majority of...

Blood Platelets and Myocardial Infarction: Do Hyperactive Platelets Really Exist?*

The existence of platelet ‘hyperreactivity’ as a trigger of acute vascular events has been postulated clinically for decades. However, the molecular nature of an intrinsically enhanced platelet function remained unknown. Recently, a possible explanation was provided in that several genetically determined variants of platelet glycoprotein receptors can be responsible for an increased thrombogeni...

To Blood Platelets

I ‘ HAS LONG BEEN KNOWN that blood platelets are isoantigenic.’ Serum isoantibodies reacting with platelets have been repeatedly demonstrated in 1)citieflts ‘ho have received multiple blood transfusions, and in multiparous vomen.’’4 The iiicidence of isoimmunity to blood platelets in niultitransfused iNitients has been studied mainly by the the anti-human globulin consumption,’2 the indirect Co...

The Blood Platelets