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Platelet-Derived Extracellular Vesicles in Arterial Thrombosis

Matthew T Harper1

  • 1Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. mth29@cam.ac.uk.

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
|August 21, 2023
PubMed

Keywords:
ExocytosisExosomesExtracellular vesiclesMicroparticlesPhosphatidylserinePlateletsThrombosis

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