Molecular and Cellular Insights into Platelet Function
A special issue of Cells (ISSN 2073-4409). This special issue belongs to the section "Cells of the Cardiovascular System".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 78
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cyclic nucleotides signaling; PKA; PKG; platelets
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Blood platelets are unique anuclear cells whose main function is to protect vascular integrity by forming hemostatic plugs, promoting blood coagulation, and regulating vessel wall status. They also moonlight as regulators of wound healing, fibrinolysis, regeneration and tissue remodeling, angiogenesis, lymphatic development, inflammation, and immunity. This multitude of functions, the high complexity of the inner structure, and an intricate signal transduction network make platelets a difficult and exciting object of research, while their involvement in vital physiological and pathological processes makes this research urgently important. Despite enormous progress in recent decades, platelets still hide numerous mysteries.
This Special Issue of Cells will highlight recent progress and discuss major obstacles in the platelet field through a collection of original research articles, reviews, and communications. We welcome all types of studies (including basic, methodological, technological, and computational ones) related to this topic to be submitted to this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Stepan Gambaryan
Dr. Mikhail A. Panteleev
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- platelet
- wound healing
- fibrinolysis
- regeneration and tissue remodeling
- angiogenesis
- lymphatic development
- inflammation and immunity
