The role of platelets in antimicrobial host defense

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 951-970

  Yeaman, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GROWTH FACTOR; OXACILLIN; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; THROMBOCYTE RECEPTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; VANCOMYCIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LEUKOCYTE ADHERENCE; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 0030859873     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/516120     Document Type: Review

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