Platelets and the innate immune system: Mechanisms of bacterial-induced platelet activation

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1097-1107

  Cox, D ^a   Kerrigan, S W ^b   Watson, S P ^c  

^a Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics   (Ireland)

^b ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOXIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; BINDING PROTEIN; COMPLEMENT RECEPTOR; FC RECEPTOR IIA; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR; FIBRONECTIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN IB ALPHA; GLYCOPROTEIN IIB; GLYCOPROTEIN IIIA; GLYCOPROTEIN VI; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LEUKOCIDIN; PHOSPHOLIPID; PLASMA PROTEIN; PNEUMOLYSIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 1; STREPTOLYSIN O; THROMBOCYTE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 1; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 6; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 8; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 9; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BINDING KINETICS; COMPLEMENT FACTOR; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ERADICATION THERAPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEART INFARCTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; INNATE IMMUNITY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MICROTHROMBUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SEPTICEMIA; SHEAR STRESS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS; STROKE; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOGENESIS; THROMBOSIS; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME; WOUND INFECTION;

BACTERIA; BLOOD PLATELETS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; PLATELET ACTIVATION;

EID: 79958074275     PISSN: 15387933     EISSN: 15387836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-7836.2011.04264.x     Document Type: Review

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