Full Description
This five-volume series provides clinicians with a detailed, up-to-date, well-referenced overview of the latest developments in this rapidly expanding field. It serves as an authoritative guide to the diagnosis and treatment of platelet disorders.The primary audience for the series is clinicians, residents and fellows in internal medicine, cardiology and haematology, as well as clinicians (e.g. neurologists, nephrologists, rheumatologists) and basic scientists who may be concerned with disorders and cellular mechanisms involving platelets.
Contents
Chapter 1: Platelets: a historical view.- Chapter 2: Phylogeny of blood platelets.- Chapter 3: Platelet morphology and ultrastructure.- Chapter 4: Intramedullary Megakaryopoiesis.- Chapter 5: Extramedullary Megakaryopoiesis.- Chapter 6: Inherited and acquired defects of megakaryopoiesis and thrombopoiesis.- Chapter 7: Alternative functions of megakaryocytes.- Chapter 8: Advances in Megakaryocyte Imaging Technology.- Chapter 9: Advances and Challenges in the Ex Vivo Production of Megakaryocytes and Platelets.- Chapter 10: Platelet adhesion receptors.- Chapter 11: Glycoprotein Ib/IX/V.- Chapter 12: Integrin αIIbβ3.- Chapter 13: Glycoprotein VI.- Chapter 14: CLEC-2.- Chapter 15: Platelet FcyRIIa receptor.- Chapter 16: Protease activated receptors.- Chapter 17: Platelet Thromboxane A2 and prostanoid receptors.- Chapter 18: Purinergic P2 receptors.- Chapter 19: ITIM containing receptors.- Chapter 20: Platelet glycans.- Chapter 21: The platelet cytoskeleton.- Chapter 22: The platelet proteome.- Chapter 23. The platelet lipidome.- Chapter 24: The platelet transcriptome: coding RNAs.- Chapter 25: The platelet transcriptome: non-coding RNAs.- Chapter 26: Platelet genomics.- Chapter 27: Platelet signal transduction: GTPase.- Chapter 28: Platelet signal transduction: calcium.- Chapter 29: Platelets signal transduction: focal adhesion kinases.- Chapter 30: Platelet signaling: protein phosphorylation.
