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The evolution of higher animals would not have been possible without the development of hemostatic mechanisms capable of controlling blood loss after injury to their high-pressure vascular systems. Until recently, the study of these mechanisms was concentrated on the coagulation of blood plasma, but in the last 15 years or so attention has also been paid to the equally dramatic ability of platelets to become sticky at sites of injury. The main reason for this shift of emphasis is that, in man, the adhesion of platelets to damaged blood vessels and their subsequent aggregation seem to be more important than blood coagulation in thrombosis or the occlusion of arteries affected by atheroma.
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Smith, J.B., Macfarlane, D.E. (1974). Platelets. In: The Prostaglandins. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4544-2_9
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