Emerging Technologies for Understanding Platelet Diversity

This review discusses our understanding of platelet diversity with implications for the roles of platelets in hemostasis and thrombosis and identifies advanced technologies set to provide new insights. We use the term diversity to capture intrasubject platelet variability that can be intrinsic or governed by the environment and lead to a heterogeneous response pattern of aggregation, clot promotion, and external communication. Using choice examples, we discuss how the use of advanced technologies can provide new insights into the underlying causes of platelet molecular, structural, and functional diversity. As sources of diversity, we discuss the proliferating megakaryocytes with different allele-specific expression patterns, the asymmetrical formation of proplatelets, changes in platelets induced by aging and priming, interplatelet heterogeneity in thrombus organization and stability, and platelet-dependent communications. We provide indications how current knowledge gaps can be addressed using promising technologies, such as next-generation sequencing, proteomic approaches, advanced imaging techniques, multicolor flow and mass cytometry, multifunctional microfluidics assays, and organ-on-a-chip platforms. We then argue how this technology base can aid in characterizing platelet populations and in identifying platelet biomarkers relevant for the treatment of cardiovascular disease.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:42

Enthalten in:

Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology - 42(2022), 5 vom: 27. Mai, Seite 540-552

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Heemskerk, Johan W M [VerfasserIn]
West, Jonathan [VerfasserIn]

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Volltext

Themen:

Biomarkers
Cardiovascular diseases
Hemostasis
Journal Article
Megakaryocytes
Platelets
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review
Thrombosis

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 29.04.2022

Date Revised 01.03.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1161/ATVBAHA.121.317092

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM33826809X