TY - BOOK ID - 50205999 TI - Platelets AU - Michelson, Alan D AU - Cattaneo, M AU - Frelinger, Andrew L AU - Newman, Peter J PY - 2019 SN - 0128134690 0128134569 9780128134696 9780128134566 PB - London, United Kingdom DB - UniCat KW - Blood platelets. KW - Blood Platelets. KW - Blood Platelet Disorders. KW - Thrombocytopathy KW - Blood Platelet Disorder KW - Disorder, Blood Platelet KW - Disorders, Blood Platelet KW - Platelet Disorder, Blood KW - Platelet Disorders, Blood KW - Thrombocytopathies KW - Platelets KW - Thrombocytes KW - Blood Platelet KW - Platelet KW - Platelet, Blood KW - Platelets, Blood KW - Thrombocyte KW - Blood cells KW - Megakaryocytes UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:50205999 AB - Platelets, Fourth Edition, integrates the entire field of platelet biology, pathophysiology, and clinical medicine with contributions from 142 world experts from 18 countries. This award-winning reference provides clear presentations by basic scientists on the cellular, molecular, and genetic mechanisms of platelets and the role of platelets in thrombosis, hemorrhage, inflammation, antimicrobial host defense, wound healing, angiogenesis and cancer. It also provides start-of-the-art presentations by hematologists, cardiologists, stroke physicians, blood bankers, pathologists and other clinicians on platelet function testing, disorders of platelet numbers and function, antiplatelet therapy and therapy to increase platelet numbers and/or function. Since the publication of the Third Edition of Platelets, there has been a rapid expansion of knowledge in both basic biology of platelets and the clinical approach to platelet-related diseases. This Fourth Edition of Platelets draws all this information into a single, comprehensive and authoritative resource. ER -