Low-dose aspirin may limit cancer metastasis by inhibiting platelet activation and enhancing T-cell immunity, supporting biomarker guided use while balancing bleeding risk overall.

Boston, MA - A new report from the Framingham Offspring Study adds to the understanding of how alcohol can act as an anticoagulant [1]. It seems that it affects both platelet aggregation and ...

A team from Würzburg has fundamentally changed our understanding of platelet biology. The researchers demonstrate that the ...

Platelets are small, anucleate blood cells that play an essential role in hemostasis. Their primary task is to recognize vascular injury, become activated, and aggregate via their surface receptor ...

In a recent study under review in the Journal of Hematology & Oncology journal and currently available on the Research Square* preprint server, researchers investigated the presence of severe acute ...

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 ...

A simple blood test for platelet activity at middle age could one day help identify people at risk for Alzheimer's disease decades ahead of time, allowing for possible preventive therapy. According to ...

Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is an immune-mediated platelet disorder caused by antibodies that target complexes of platelet factor 4 (PF4) and heparin. HIT has been characterized as a ...

Here we describe a female patient who presented with pulmonary embolism and deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) in 2007 at 22 years of age and was treated for 6 months with phenprocoumon (vitamin K antagonist) ...