Single drug, soft environment can increase platelet production
Friday, July 8, 2011 - 11:02
in Health & Medicine
(Medical Xpress) -- Humans produce billions of clot-forming platelets every day, but there are times when there arent enough of them, such as with certain diseases or during invasive surgery. Now, University of Pennsylvania researchers have demonstrated that a single drug can induce bone marrow cells called megakaryocytes to quadruple the number of platelets they produce.