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PREVIOUS experiments have shown that when clotting begins in human plasma containing platelets (‘platelet-rich plasma’), adenosine triphosphate rapidly disappears from platelets with little or none of it appearing in the serum1. Other experiments suggested that in such plasma a phospholipoprotein is formed which is later broken down, and that this may be plasma thromboplastin2.
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BORN, G., ESNOUF, M. Appearance of a Phosphorus Compound in Platelet-rich Plasma on Clotting. Nature 183, 478 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/183478a0
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