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Blood Platelets

"Blood Platelets" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Non-nucleated disk-shaped cells formed in the megakaryocyte and found in the blood of all mammals. They are mainly involved in blood coagulation.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Blood Platelets" by people in this website by year, and whether "Blood Platelets" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 73 publications over 28 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2014
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