Platelets as immune cells in physiology and immunopathology

• Autor principal: Olivier Garraud (auth)
• Formato: Recurso Electrónico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Colecção: Frontiers Research Topics
• Assuntos: Medicine; Infection; Inflammation; immunity; platelets
• Acesso em linha: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Are platelets cells? (Not everyone agrees, since they are non-nucleate). And if platelets are cells - which all specialists consider at the time being - are they immune cells? The issue that platelets participate in immunity is no longer debated; however, the issue that they are key cells in immunit...