BMC blood disorders.
Discontinued
Publisher:
BioMed Central,
Country: England
Language: English
Start Year:2001 - 2012
Identifiers
| ISSN: | 1471-2326 (Electronic) 1471-2326 (Linking) |
| NLM ID: | 100968550 |
| (OCoLC): | 47653525 |
| LCCN: | 2001243468 |
Assessment of Equine Autoimmune Thrombocytopenia (EAT) by flow cytometry. RATIONALE: Thrombocytopenia is a platelet associated process that occurs in human and animals as result of i) decreased production; ii) increased utilization; iii) increased destruction coupled to the presence of antibodies, within a process know as immune-mediated thrombocytopenia (IMT); or iv) platelet sequestration. Thus, the differentiation of the origin of IMT and the development of reliable diagnostic approaches and methodologies are important in the clarification of IMT pathogenesis. Therefore, there is a growing need in the field for easy to perform assays for assessing platelet morpho...