The extent of the involvement of platelets in venous thromboembolisms (VTE) is still not fully understood. Immature platelets are large, RNA-rich, prothrombotic platelets. They are involved in arteria
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, lethal interstitial lung disease in which the aberrant PTEN/Akt axis plays a major role in conferring a survival phenotype in response to the cell dea
Analysis of gene expression of lung fibroblasts seeded onto decellularized extracellular matrix (ECM). Experiment had 2x2 design where fibroblasts from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) or control p
Postoperative coagulopathic bleeding is common in cardiac surgery and associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Platelet function is affected by multiple factors, including patient and proced
