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In the shadow of the thrombus

Nature Medicine volume 15, pages 607–608 (2009)Cite this article

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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Figure 1: Events at the vessel wall after injury.

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

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