platelet aggregation in a sentence
Examples
- Platelet aggregation is normal with ristocetin, but impaired with other agonists such as ADP, thrombin, collagen or epinephrine.
- Besides giving flavor to shiitake mushrooms, lenthionine inhibits platelet aggregation, so it is a promising treatment for thrombosis.
- In practice, platelet aggregation gradually returns to normal about 96 to 120 hours after discontinuation of the drug.
- These lipid epoxides have been shown to have biological effects in vitro in which they inhibit platelet aggregation.
- Some derivatives of norzoanthamine also suppress development of some kind of leukemia cell lines and human platelet aggregation.
- Cleavage of the von Willebrand factor inhibits platelet aggregation and of plasminogen produces an angiostatin fragment preventing angiogenesis.
- PGD 2 is also involved in smooth muscle contraction / relaxation and is a potent inhibitor of platelet aggregation.
- Like thrombin, these proteases are capable of inducing platelet aggregation, and some even fibrin clot formation, at nanomolar concentrations.
- Prostacyclin usually prevents platelet aggregation and vasoconstriction, so its inhibition can lead to excess clot formation and higher blood pressure.
- Bleeding is caused by the generation of fibrinogen degradation products which interfere with regular fibrin polymerization and inhibit platelet aggregation.