Dark chocolate inhibits platelet aggregation in healthy volunteers

Platelets

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 325-327

  Innes, Andrew J ^a   Kennedy, Gwen ^a   McLaren, Margaret ^a   Bancroft, Anne J ^a   Belch, Jill J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAVONOID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CACAO; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART PROTECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

BLOOD PLATELETS; CACAO; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; COLLAGEN; HUMANS; PLATELET ACTIVATION; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PLATELET FUNCTION TESTS;

THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 0141678826     PISSN: 09537104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0953710031000123681     Document Type: Article

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