Blood Platelets (IMAGE)

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Blood Platelets

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Left: Trajectory of a migrating platelet, depicted (from top to bottom) as a sequence of time-lapse images of the cell's outline. Right: As they migrate, platelets can collect bacteria into bundles (orange arrowheads).

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F. Gärtner/LMU

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