Evidence that Human Platelet Aggregating Activity in Porcine Plasma is a Property of von Willebrand Factor

G de Gaetano; M. B Donati; J Vermylen

doi:10.1055/s-0038-1647723

Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Table of Contents

Thromb Haemost 1974; 32(02/03): 549-553
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1647723

Original Article

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Evidence that Human Platelet Aggregating Activity in Porcine Plasma is a Property of von Willebrand Factor

G de Gaetano

¹Laboratory for Haemostasis and Thrombosis Research, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri” Milano, Italy, and Laboratory of Blood Coagulation, Medical Research Department, University of Leuven, Belgium

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M. B Donati

¹Laboratory for Haemostasis and Thrombosis Research, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri” Milano, Italy, and Laboratory of Blood Coagulation, Medical Research Department, University of Leuven, Belgium

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J Vermylen

¹Laboratory for Haemostasis and Thrombosis Research, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri” Milano, Italy, and Laboratory of Blood Coagulation, Medical Research Department, University of Leuven, Belgium

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Abstract

Summary

Plasma from normal pigs, but not from a pig affected with von Willebrand’s disease, aggregates human platelets. The aggregating activity therefore seems to be a property of porcine von Willebrand factor.

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