Participation of human blood platelets in antimicrobial host defense

Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 57-62

  Klinger, M H F ^a   Ulbricht, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bactericidal mechanism; Host defense; Innate immunity; Oxygen free radicals; Platelets; Thrombocytes

Indexed keywords

DYE; THROMBIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BINDING SITE; CELL STIMULATION; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; COCULTURE; DEGRANULATION; FLUORESCENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCUBATION TIME; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LARYNX TUMOR; MEMBRANE RUPTURE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; SUPERNATANT; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE MEMBRANE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TUMOR CELL;

EID: 0344084401     PISSN: 16603796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000070545     Document Type: Article

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