Platelet granules – secretory and secretive

Summary

The article reviews three recent publications addressing physiological and pathological aspects of platelet granules and release as well as limitations of recent screening tests for diagnosis of non-syndromic inherited D-storage pool disease (1-3).

Zusammenfassung

Der Beitrag gibt eine Übersicht über drei aktuelle Publikationen zu physiologischen und pathologischen Aspekten von Thrombozyten-Granula und -Freisetzung sowie den Limitationen der Screening-Tests zur Diagnose von nicht-syndromalen erblichen D-StoragePool-Erkrankungen (1-3).

Keywords

platelets - secretory granules - storage pool disease

Schlüsselwörter

Thrombozyten - sekretorische Granula - Storage-Pool-Erkrankung

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