... disorders and especially with brain infarction have an enhanced velocity of PGI2 degradation. The increase in velocity was more marked in blood than in plasma. A direct relation between this enhancement and the manifestation of intravascular platelet activation was observed. These data suggest that elevated...

...G.V.R. Born This lecture is mainly concerned with questions about how hemodynamic conditions in atherosclerotic arteries affect arriving platelets that aggregate there and about the chemical agents responsible for making the platelets reactive. The effects of hemodynamic conditions and the agents...

...Pedro Gonzalez-Alegre; Alfredo D. Ruiz-Lopez; Manuel Abarca-Costalago; Pedro Gonzalez-Santos Temporal arteritis (TA) is a vasculitis involving mainly cranial branches of the aorta that can lead to ischemic complications such as amaurosis or ischemic stroke. Increment in the platelet count has been...