Talk:Platelet
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Article Grading: The following comments were left by the quality and importance raters: (edit · history · refresh · how to use this template) The lists need to be formed into coherent paragraphs. Ciar 02:06, 12 January 2007 (UTC) |
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To the anonymous user rewriting a lot of this article. It looks like good stuff, but can you let me know your sources? Zeimusu 13:48, 2004 Nov 3 (UTC)
- Most of this is stuff found in any medical textbook. I don't think there is an immediate need for resources on the material added. JFW | T@lk 16:43, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)
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- Ok, I'm fine with that.Zeimusu
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[edit] Sympotoms Of Thromcytopenia
Does anyone know what the symptoms of having a high platelet count over 1 million? Mdougherty79@msn.com
[edit] History
I found a useful historical resource about the discovery of platelets and their function here. JFW | T@lk 21:26, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Richard Hill Norris
I have only found one source that links Prof Richard Hill Norris to the function of platelets. In contrast, Prof Douglas Brewer (himself a Birmingham emeritus) attributes the findings to Bizzozero, as I have now indicated in the article.
I have emailed Prof Brewer to see whether he knows more about R.H. Norris. For the moment, I think it is safer to attribute the discovery to Schultze and Bizzozero as per Brewer's historical article. JFW | T@lk 22:35, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
i think that uneed less big words and make it simple
- Prof Brewer kindly replied to my email. Firstly, there was no University of Birmingham yet in 1878. Secondly, while Norris published on haematomorphology he did not primarily discover platelet function. I regard the matter as settled. JFW | T@lk 15:46, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Anucleate
Do platelets in nonmammalian vertebrates have a nucleus? It would be nice if this were clarified in the article. --Aranae 03:09, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] What images should be used?
Suggest that the page has a picture of platelets on a blood film, perhaps a EM of a platelet as well, perhaps an image of a megakaryocyte at well. This is to replace the picture of the bag of plateletes, which is also on the platelet transfusion page. Snowman 14:26, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] History of platelets
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed/PDFS/Publications/Witness/wit23.pdf - recent history of platelets in thrombosis and other disorders. Enormous document (>200 pages) on the history of platelets. Have no time to read it yet. JFW | T@lk 23:56, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
- PMID 13896038 - the effects of ADP on platelets have been known since 1961! JFW | T@lk 16:57, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Production
There isn't any information on where or how platelets are produced and introduced to the blood stream, or any methods one can take to increase or decrease the count naturally. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.202.139.92 (talk • contribs)
- It says quite clearly that platelets are made in the bone marrow. There are no specific "natural" (what do you mean?) methods of manipulating the platelet count. JFW | T@lk 14:34, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Transfusion Medicine
Added information on volume reduction of platelets for pediatric use. Garffreak (talk) 01:18, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
