Platelets

Experts from all areas of academic and medical research in hematology, oncology, cardiology, and pathology, take readers from the bench research through the role of platelets in disease, to new therapeutic approaches. Platelets, Fourth Edition, integrates the entire field of platelet biology, pathophysiology, and clinical medicine with contributions from 125 world experts from 14 countries. This award-winning reference provides clear presentations by basic scientists of the cellular, molecular, and genetic mechanisms of platelets and the subsequent pathophysiological processes such as thrombosis, hemorrhage, inflammation, and cancer. It also provides clear presentations by hematologists, oncologists, cardiologists, pathologists, and other clinicians on how antiplatelet therapy, gene therapy, and platelet transfusion can lead to new therapeutic approaches to diagnose and treat thrombosis and other cardiovascular diseases.

Since the publication of the third edition, there continues to be a rapid expansion of knowledge in both basic biology and the clinical approach to platelet-related diseases including thrombosis and hemorrhage. This Fourth Edition of Platelets will continue to draw all this information into a single, comprehensive and authoritative resource.

• Comprehensive and definitive source of state-of-the-art knowledge about platelets
• Integrates the entire field of platelet biology, pathophysiology, and clinical medicine
• Written for clinicians, pathologists and scientists by 142 world-renowned experts from 18 countries
• Completely revised and updated, with 11 new chapters on topics such as platelet glycobiology, the platelet transcriptome, platelet inhibitory receptors, platelet function testing in clinical research trials, therapeutic platelet-rich plasma in wound healing, and new antiplatelet drugs
• Full color textbook with over 250 illustrations and 15,000 references