Therapy to inhibit platelet neutrophil aggregates and/or neutralize platelet derived proinflammatory mediators may provide a novel therapeutic approach to acute lung injury that should be explored in ...

Scientists have provided new details about how cancer cells spread by surrounding themselves with platelets -- the blood cells needed for blood clotting. These results could help design new drugs that ...

The resulting platelet-bacterial aggregates facilitate the activation of neutrophils, which engulf the trapped microbes. The reason why the versatility of platelets has so far been overlooked may well ...

The Lipid Hypothesis of coronary artery disease has long held that a high level of cholesterol is the causative factor of atherosclerosis, but a group of New York scientists is making a powerful case ...

DURING studies of blood viscosity with a method designed to determine resistance to flow in very small blood vessels, it was unexpectedly found that very high pressures became necessary to force blood ...

As cancer cells migrate in the body from a primary tumor, they’re chaperoned by clumps of platelets. These bloodstream particles shield the cells from damage and help them invade new tissues in the ...

BETHESDA, Md. – Scientists have provided new details about how cancer cells spread by surrounding themselves with platelets – the blood cells needed for blood clotting. Katsue Suzuki-Inoue, Associate ...