Platelet count and aging

Haematologica

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 953-955

  Balduini, Carlo L ^a   Noris, Patrizia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGING; CELL COUNTER; EDITORIAL; ETHNICITY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; BLOOD;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; HUMANS; PLATELET COUNT;

EID: 84901709154     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: 15928721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2014.106260     Document Type: Editorial

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