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Nature Medicine 15, 607 - 608 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nm0609-607

In the shadow of the thrombus

Lawrence Brass1

  1. Lawrence Brass is in the Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology, Division of Hematology-Oncology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
    e-mail: brass@mail.med.upenn.edu


Platelets accumulate on the downstream face of a developing blood clot after local changes in blood flow. These findings offer new insights into how platelets pile up at sites of vascular injury (pages 665–673).

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