Platelet secretory behaviour: As diverse as the granules... or not?

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2141-2151

  Heijnen, H ^a   van der Sluijs, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Exocytosis; Membrane fusion; Platelet; Secretion process; Secretory granules; SNAREs

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SNARE PROTEIN; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ALPHA GRANULE; CELL GRANULE; CYTOSKELETON; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXOCYTOSIS; EXOSOME; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; LYSOSOME; OPEN CANALICULAR SYSTEM; PLATELET DENSE GRANULE; PLATELET MICROPARTICLE; PLATELET SECRETORY BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; T GRANULE; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION; THROMBOCYTE RELEASE REACTION; THROMBUS; ANIMAL; CELL COMMUNICATION; KINETICS; MEMBRANE MICROPARTICLE; METABOLISM; SECRETION (PROCESS); SECRETORY VESICLE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THROMBOCYTE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PLATELETS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL-DERIVED MICROPARTICLES; CYTOSKELETON; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; EXOCYTOSIS; EXOSOMES; HUMANS; KINETICS; PLATELET ACTIVATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SECRETORY VESICLES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84958759995     PISSN: 15387933     EISSN: 15387836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jth.13147     Document Type: Review

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