How Waves of Calcium Permit Platelets to Bind to Their Partners (3 of 3) (VIDEO)

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A megakaryocyte displaying calcium waves (blue) and binding of fibrinogen (red) after being stimulated. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 22, 2020, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by A.P. Bye at University of Reading in Reading, UK; and colleagues was titled, " Ca²⁺ waves coordinate purinergic receptor-evoked integrin activation and polarization."

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[Credit: A.P. Bye <i>et al., Science Signaling</i> (2019)]

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