Platelets / editor, Alan D. Michelson.

Previous ed.: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. Platelet biology. The evolution of mammalian platelets / Jack Levin -- Megakaryocyte development and platelet formation / Joseph E. Italiano Jr. and John H. Hartwig -- The regulation of platelet life span / Emma C. Josefsson ... [et al.] -- Platelet genomics / Paul F. Bray ... [et al.] -- Platelet microRNAs / Patrick Provost -- the platelet proteome / Matthew C. Smith ... [et al.] -- Platelet structure / James G. White -- The platelet cytoskeleton / John H. Hartwig -- Platelet receptors / Kenneth J. Clemetson and Jeannine M. Clemetson -- The GPIb-IX-V complex / Robert K. Andrews and Michael C. Berndt -- GPVI and CLEC-2 / Alice Y. Pollitt, Craig E. Hughes, and Steve P. Watson -- Integrin [alpha]IIb[beta]3 / Kamila Bledzka ... [et al.] -- Protease-activated receptors / Ping Zhang, Lidija Covic, and Athan Kuliopulos -- The platelet P2 receptors / Marco Cattaneo -- PECAM-1 / Peter J. Newman and Debra K. Newman -- Interactions between platelets, leukocytes and the endothelium / Virgilio Evangelista and Susan S. Smyth -- Inhibition of platelet function by the endothelium / Lea M. Beaulieu and Jane E. Freedman -- Platelet secretion / Robert Flaumenhaft --

Signal transduction during platelet plug formation / Lawrence F. Brass ... [et al.] -- Platelet thrombus formation in flowing blood / Zaverio M. Ruggeri and Shaun P. Jackson -- Interactions between platelets and the coagulation system / Beth A. bouchard, Jay R. Silveira, and Paula B. Tracy -- Platelet-derived microparticles / Rienk Nieuwland ... [et al.] -- The role of platelets in fibrinolysis / Nicola J. Mutch -- The role of platelets in angiogenesis / Giannoula Lakka Klement, Ela Shai, and David Varon -- Platelet function in the newborn / Sara J. Israels -- II. Tests of platelet function. Clinical tests of platelet function / Paul Harrison and Marie Lordkipanidze -- Platelet counting / Paul Harrison and Carol Briggs -- Platelet aggregation / Catherine P.M. Hayward and Karen A. Moffat -- Flow cytometry / Michelle A. Berny-Lang ... [et al.] -- Monitoring of antiplatelet therapy / Paul A. Gurbel and Udaya S. Tantry -- Real time in vivo imaging of platelets during thrombus formation / Glenn Merrill-Skoloff ... [et al.] -- III. The role of platelets in disease. Atherothrombosis and coronary artery disease / Harald F. Langer, Tobias Geisler, and Meinrad Gawaz -- Central nervous system ischemia / Gregory J. Del Zoppo --

Peripheral vascular disease / Michael Sobel -- Diabetes mellitus / Giovanni Davi, Francesca Santilli, and Natale Vazzana -- Inflammation / Adriana Vieira-de-Abreu ... [et al.] -- Antimicrobial host defense / Michael R. Yeaman and Arnold S. Bayer -- Tumor growth and metastasis / Jerry Ware and Shashank Jain -- IV. Disorders of platelet number and function. The clinical approach to disorders of platelet number and function / Alan D. Michelson -- Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) / Bethan Psaila and James B. Bussel -- Drug-induced thrombocytopenia / Richard H. Aster -- Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia / Andreas Greinacher, Theodore E. Warkentin, and Beng H. Chong -- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura and the hemolytic-uremic syndrome / Han-Mou Tsai -- Thrombocytopenia in pregnancy / Keith R. McCrae -- Thrombocytopenia in the newborn / Irene A.G. Roberts and Subarna Chakravorty -- Alloimmune thrombocytopenia / Cecile Kaplan, Heyu Ni, and John Freedman -- Inherited thrombocytopenias / Michele P. Lambert and Mortimer Poncz -- Pseudothrombocytopenia / Nicola Bizzaro -- Thrombocytosis and essential thrombocythemia / Ayalew Tefferi --

Congenital disorders of platelet function / Marco Cattaneo -- Acquired disorders of platelet function / A. Koneti Rao -- Cardiopulmonary bypass / Brian Richard Smith and Henry M. Rinder -- V. Antiplatelet therapy. Aspirin / Carlo Patrono -- ADP receptor antagonists / Marco Cattaneo -- [alpha]IIb[beta]3 (GPIIb-IIIa) antagonists / Anthony A. Bavry -- Dipyridamole / Wolfgang G. Eisert -- Cilostazol / Yasuo Ideda, Toshika Sudo, and Yukio Kimura -- Novel Antiplatelet therapies / Kumaran Kolandaivelu and Deepak L. Bhatt -- VI. Therapy to increase platelet numbers and/or function. Thrombopoietin mimetics / David J. Kuter -- Desmopressin (DDAVP) / Pier Mannuccio Mannucci and Marco Cattaneo -- Factor VIIa / Man-Chiu Poon -- Platelet transfusion medicine / Peter L. Perrotta ... [et al.] -- Making platelets ex vivo / Michele P. Lambert, Spencer Sullivan, and Mortimer Poncz -- Gene therapy for platelet disorders / David A. Wilcox.