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Counteracting clotting in sepsis

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The complexity of factors that regulate bleeding and coagulation has long confounded researchers. Andrew Wei and Shaun Jackson help clear the air by examining clinical findings pointing to a mechanistic basis for a common bleeding disorder, immune thrombocytopenic purpura. Mark Kahn tackles two research studies that could lead to improved therapies for a coagulation syndrome that hits people with severe sepsis.

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Figure 1: Opposing cell-specific roles for PAR1 during sepsis.

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  1. Mark L. Kahn is at the University of Pennsylvania, 925 BRB II/III, 421 Curie Boulevard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. markkahn@med.upenn.edu,

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