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Live-cell Imaging of Platelet Degranulation and Secretion Under Flow
Published on: July 10, 2017
Systems biology of platelet-vessel wall interactions
Yolande Chen1, Seth Joel Corey, Oleg V Kim
1RH Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Rm 5-220, 303 E. Superior St., 60611, Chicago, IL, USA, yolande-chen@northwestern.edu.
Abstract:
Platelets are small, anucleated cells that participate in primary hemostasis by forming a hemostatic plug at the site of a blood vessel's breach, preventing blood loss. However, hemostatic events can lead to excessive thrombosis, resulting in life-threatening strokes, emboli, or infarction. Development of multi-scale models coupling processes at several scales and running predictive model simulations on powerful computer clusters can help interdisciplinary groups of researchers to suggest and test new patient-specific treatment strategies.
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