Platelets (Electronic book text)

Platelets are small cells are of great importance in many proccesses including thrombosis, bleeding, inflammation, the body's defense against infectious agents, and cancer growth and metastasis. Recently there has been a rapid expansion of the knowledge in both basic biology and the clinical approach to platelet-related diseases including disorders of platelet number and function. Novel platelet function tests, drugs, blood bank storage methods and gene therapies have been incorporated into patient care or are in development. This book draws all this information into a single, comprehensive and definitive resource.