Blood, 1964, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 389-393.
© 1964 American Society of Hematology, Inc.
Brief Report: Studies on Subcellular Platelet Particles
AARON J. MARCUS 1 and
DOROTHEA ZUCKER-FRANKLIN 1
1 Hematology Section, New York Veterans Administration Hospital; Department of Medicine, Cornell University Medical College; and the Departments of Anatomy
and Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, N. Y.
The phospholipids of subcellular platelet particles are very similar to those
of the intact platelet. However, they contain a higher proportion of long-chain,
highly unsaturated fatty acids, which confers upon them physical characteristics suggesting a dynamic biological system.
Submitted on August 29, 1963
Accepted on September 25, 1963
