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Platelet Function, Role in Thrombosis, Inflammation, and Consequences in Chronic Myeloproliferative Disorders.

Lisa Repsold, Anna Margaretha Joubert

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Review in Cells, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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42citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
7.0field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

42 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 79 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lisa RepsoldDepartment of Physiology, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0007, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0003-1568-9018
Anna Margaretha JoubertDepartment of Physiology, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0007, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-6931-7554
University of Pretoria · ZA

Funding

Cancer Association of South Africa AOV741Cancer Association of South Africa AOW228Medical Research Council of South Africa AOW110National Research Foundation N00375National Research Foundation N00591School of Medicine Research Committee of the Faculty of Health Sciences AOR984Struwig-Germeshuysen Research Trust AON074
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Platelets are conventionally defined as playing a vital role in homeostasis and thrombosis. This role has over the years transformed as knowledge regarding platelets has expanded to include inflammation, cancer progression, and metastasis. Upon platelet activation and subsequent aggregation, platelets release a host of various factors, including numerous pro-inflammatory factors. These pro-inflammatory factors are recruiters and activators of leukocytes, aiding in platelets' immune regulating function and inflammatory function. These various platelet functions are interrelated; activation of the inflammatory function results in thrombosis and, moreover, in various disease conditions, can result in worsened or chronic pathogenesis, including cancer. The role and contribution of platelets in a multitude of pathophysiological events during hemostasis, thrombosis, inflammation, cancer progression, and metastasis is an important focus for ongoing research. Platelet activation as discussed here is present in all platelet functionalities and can result in a multitude of factors and signaling pathways being activated. The cross-talk between inflammation, cancer, and platelets is therefore an ideal target for research and treatment strategies through antiplatelet therapy. Despite the knowledge implicating platelets in these mentioned processes, there is, nevertheless, limited literature available on the involvement and impact of platelets in many diseases, including myeloproliferative neoplasms. The extensive role platelets play in the processes discussed here is irrefutable, yet we do not fully understand the complete interrelation and extent of these processes.

Indexed as

AnimalsBlood PlateletsChronic DiseaseHumansInflammationMyeloproliferative DisordersReceptors, Cell SurfaceThrombosisReceptors, Cell Surfaceinflammationmyeloproliferative disordersplateletsthrombosis

Identifiers

PMID34831257
PMCPMC8616365
OpenAlexW3213955721

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