Platelet disturbances correlate with endothelial cell activation in uncomplicated Plasmodium vivax malaria.

• Main Authors: João Conrado Khouri Dos-Santos (Author), João Luiz Silva-Filho (Author), Carla C Judice (Author), Ana Carolina Andrade Vitor Kayano (Author), Júlio Aliberti (Author), Ricardo Khouri (Author), Diógenes S de Lima (Author), Helder Nakaya (Author), Marcus Vinicius Guimarães Lacerda (Author), Erich Vinicius De Paula (Author), Stefanie Costa Pinto Lopes (Author), Fabio Trindade Maranhão Costa (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

Platelets drive endothelial cell activation in many diseases. However, if this occurs in Plasmodium vivax malaria is unclear. As platelets have been reported to be activated and to play a role in inflammatory response during malaria, we hypothesized that this would correlate with endothelial alterat...