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ReviewCirculation research2024

What It Takes To Be a Platelet: Evolving Concepts in Platelet Production.

Estelle Carminita, Isabelle C Becker, Joseph E Italiano

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Review in Circulation research, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. Platelet Disorders and Medication Strategies.Thrombosis and haemostasis · 2026
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  12. Direct megakaryopoiesis.Current opinion in hematology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Estelle CarminitaVascular Biology Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA (E.C., I.C.B., J.E.I.).ORCID 0000-0002-8544-4879
Isabelle C BeckerVascular Biology Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA (E.C., I.C.B., J.E.I.).ORCID 0000-0003-2725-8493
Joseph E ItalianoVascular Biology Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA (E.C., I.C.B., J.E.I.).ORCID 0000-0001-6547-9663

Funding

The Centrosome as a master controller of platelet production.R35HL161175 · NHLBI · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI JOSEPH E ITALIANO · 2022 to 2026
$5.3M
NHLBI NIH HHS R35 HL161175
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Platelets are among the most abundant cells within the circulation. Given that the platelet lifespan is 7 to 10 days in humans, a constant production of around 100 billion platelets per day is required. Platelet production from precursor cells called megakaryocytes is one of the most enigmatic processes in human biology. Although it has been studied for over a century, there is still controversy about the exact mechanisms leading to platelet release into circulation. The formation of proplatelet extensions from megakaryocytes into bone marrow sinusoids is the best-described mechanism explaining the origin of blood platelets. However, using powerful imaging techniques, several emerging studies have recently raised challenging questions in the field, suggesting that small platelet-sized structures called buds might also contribute to the circulating platelet pool. How and whether these structures differ from microvesicles or membrane blebs, which have previously been described to be released from megakaryocytes, is still a matter of discussion. In this review, we will summarize what the past and present have revealed about platelet production and whether mature blood platelets might emerge via different mechanisms.

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Blood PlateletsMegakaryocytesThrombopoiesisAnimalsHumansblood plateletsbone marrowmegakaryocytesplatelet count

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PMID39088641
PMCPMC13533278

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