Platelet activation leads to activation and propagation of the complement system

Inflammation and thrombosis are two responses that are linked through a number of mechanisms, one of them being the complement system. Various proteins of the complement system interact specifically with platelets, which, in turn, activates them and promotes thrombosis. In this paper, we show that t...

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Main Authors: del Conde, Ian, Crúz, Miguel A., Zhang, Hui, López, José A., Afshar-Kharghan, Vahid
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: The Rockefeller University Press 2005
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2213112/