Single drug and soft environment can increase platelet production: research
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 09:30
in Health & Medicine
Humans produce billions of clot-forming platelets every day, but there are times when there aren't 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.