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ArticleTheScientificWorldJournal2014

Overview of platelet physiology: its hemostatic and nonhemostatic role in disease pathogenesis.

Kakali Ghoshal, Maitree Bhattacharyya

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Article in TheScientificWorldJournal, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04507867 (Effect of a Nutritional Support System to Reduce Complications in Patients With Covid-19 and Comorbidities in Stage III), which is not on this map. Cited by 137 papers.

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137citing papers in PubMed
6.4field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT04507867 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2020, after this paper: background citation

Effect of a Nutritional Support System to Reduce Complications in Patients With Covid-19 and Comorbidities in Stage III

TypeinterventionalSponsorAnahuac UniversityRan2020 to 2021Enrolled80ConditionsCOVID19, Diabetes Mellitus, Hypertension, ObesityArmsNutritional support system (NSS), Conventional nutritional support designed by hospital nutritionists
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

137 citing papers in PubMed, 337 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kakali GhoshalDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Calcutta, 35 Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata 700019, India.ORCID 0000-0003-2467-3288
Maitree BhattacharyyaDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Calcutta, 35 Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata 700019, India.
University of Calcutta · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Platelets are small anucleate cell fragments that circulate in blood playing crucial role in managing vascular integrity and regulating hemostasis. Platelets are also involved in the fundamental biological process of chronic inflammation associated with disease pathology. Platelet indices like mean platelets volume (MPV), platelets distributed width (PDW), and platelet crit (PCT) are useful as cheap noninvasive biomarkers for assessing the diseased states. Dynamic platelets bear distinct morphology, where α and dense granule are actively involved in secretion of molecules like GPIIb , IIIa, fibrinogen, vWf, catecholamines, serotonin, calcium, ATP, ADP, and so forth, which are involved in aggregation. Differential expressions of surface receptors like CD36, CD41, CD61 and so forth have also been quantitated in several diseases. Platelet clinical research faces challenges due to the vulnerable nature of platelet structure functions and lack of accurate assay techniques. But recent advancement in flow cytometry inputs huge progress in the field of platelets study. Platelets activation and dysfunction have been implicated in diabetes, renal diseases, tumorigenesis, Alzheimer's, and CVD. In conclusion, this paper elucidates that platelets are not that innocent as they keep showing and thus numerous novel platelet biomarkers are upcoming very soon in the field of clinical research which can be important for predicting and diagnosing disease state.

Indexed as

Blood PlateletsHemostaticsHumansPlatelet ActivationPlatelet AggregationReceptors, Purinergic P2Y12HemostaticsReceptors, Purinergic P2Y12

Identifiers

PMID24729754
PMCPMC3960550
OpenAlexW2084983272

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