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Cytoskeletal perturbation leads to platelet dysfunction and thrombocytopenia in variant forms of Glanzmann thrombasthenia.
Haematologica - 1 Jan 2016
Bury Loredana, Falcinelli Emanuela, Chiasserini Davide, Springer Timothy A, Italiano Joseph E, Gresele Paolo
Abstract excerpt
Several patients have been reported to have variant dominant forms of Glanzmann thrombasthenia, associated with macrothrombocytopenia and caused by gain-of-function mutations of ITGB3 or ITGA2B leading to reduced surface expression and constitutive activation of integrin αIIbβ3. The mechanisms leading to a bleeding phenotype of these patients have never been addressed. The aim of this study was to unravel the...
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