Effect of Fibrinogen on the Aggregation of Platelets by Adenosine Diphosphate

M. J Cross

doi:10.1055/s-0038-1655592

Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Table of Contents

Thromb Haemost 1964; 12(02): 524-527
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1655592

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Effect of Fibrinogen on the Aggregation of Platelets by Adenosine Diphosphate

Authors

M. J Cross

¹Department of Biochemistry, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, N. Y.

Abstract

Summary

The aggregation by adenosine diphosphate of washed human platelets suspended in plasma which had been heated at 100°C was considerably accelerated when normal plasma was also present. Fibrinogen enhanced this aggregation as effectively as normal plasma.

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