The role of platelets in defence against pathogens

Hamostaseologie

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 264-268

  Clemetson, K J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Allergies; Bacteria; Fungi; Haemostasis; Immunology; Parasites; Platelets; Viruses

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; BETA THROMBOGLOBULIN; CD36 ANTIGEN; CD63 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR; DICKKOPF 1 PROTEIN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 8; LYMPHOTOXIN ALPHA BETA; PADGEM PROTEIN; RANTES; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; THROMBOCYTE FACTOR 4; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TRIAZOLE; VERY LATE ACTIVATION ANTIGEN 5; VERY LATE ACTIVATION ANTIGEN 6; VORICONAZOLE;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; ASPERGILLUS TERREUS; BACTERIUM; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BRAIN MALARIA; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS; HUMAN; IMMUNE FUNCTION TEST; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYME DISEASE; MOUTH HYGIENE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SEPSIS; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRYPANOSOMA; VIRUS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BLOOD PLATELETS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MYCOSES; PARASITIC DISEASES; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 83755182907     PISSN: 07209355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5482/ha-1152     Document Type: Review

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