Disaggregation of aggregated platelets by apyrase from the tick, Ornithodoros savignyi (Acari: Argasidae)

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 271-282

  Mans, Ben J ^a   Coetzee, Jan ^a   Louw, Abraham I ^a   Gaspar, Anabella R M ^a   Neitz, Albert W H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Apyrase; Disaggregation; Secondary platelet aggregation; Tick

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; APYRASE; PLASMIN; THROMBIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; TICK;

ANIMAL; APYRASE; BLOOD PLATELETS; CELLS, CULTURED; HUMAN; PLASMIN; PLATELET AGGREGATION; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; THROMBIN; TICKS;

EID: 0033808460     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006440714276     Document Type: Article

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