An international team of scientists was able to demonstrate in mouse and patient studies, how magnesium affects the
production of blood platelets and that the TRPM7 channel function plays a key role in this process.
Using a biomaterial matrix of porous silk, the new, scalable system is capable of producing platelets for future clinical use and also provides a laboratory tissue system to advance
study of blood platelet diseases.
Using a biomaterial matrix of porous silk, the new system is capable of producing platelets for future clinical use and also provides a laboratory tissue system to advance study
of blood platelet diseases.
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number of blood platelets is regularly checked throughout the pregnancy, during the blood tests taken during prenatal examinations.
Antonio Fernández - Ortiz, MD, PhD, co-investigator on the METOCARD - CNIC study and leader of this sub-study, explains that «this project analyzes the effect of metoprolol on the
interaction of blood platelets with inflammatory cells, which might explain the benefit of early treatment with this drug as soon as possible after diagnosis of a heart attack.»
Other proteins, in whey, have been shown to reduce the
stickiness of blood platelets and the risk of thrombosis — which can trigger both heart attack and stroke.
Bromelain Monograph Alternative Medicine Review 1998 (Aug); 3 (4): 302 — 305 ~ FULL TEXT Bromelain has potent anti-inflammatory characteristics, and has been shown to decrease
aggregation of blood platelets.
Platelets can lead to the formation of blood clots or the blockage of the blood
Carroll Dunham's Red Studies Itself (1994) sets the pace: a crimson - colored
highway of blood platelets, a seething mass of organic genetics being propelled through the pathways of desire.
In addition, olive leaf extracts reduce the «stickiness»
of blood platelets, thereby directly preventing the formation of arterial plaques and cutting risk of heart attack and stroke.
Anthocyanins increase the availability of beneficial nitric oxide, while reducing the «stickiness»
of blood platelets, thereby helping to prevent atherosclerosis and inhibiting clot formation.