The ultrastructure of camel blood platelets: A comparative study with human, bovine, and equine cells

Platelets

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 51-58

  Gader, Abdel Galil M Abdel ^a   Ghumlas, Abeer K Al ^a   Hussain, Mansour F ^b   Haidari, Ahmed Al ^b   White, James G ^c  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Camel platelets; Platelet ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING TIME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; HEMOSTASIS; HISTOLOGY; HORSE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECRETORY CELL; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION; THROMBOCYTOSIS; THROMBOSIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BLEEDING TIME; BLOOD PLATELETS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CAMELS; CATTLE; CELL SIZE; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; HEAT; HEMOSTASIS; HORSES; HUMANS; PLATELET AGGREGATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; THROMBOCYTOSIS;

BOVINAE; CAMELIDAE; DISCOIDAE; EQUIDAE;

EID: 38649088543     PISSN: 09537104     EISSN: 13691635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09537100701627151     Document Type: Article

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