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Article: Research reports from K. Kaptan and co-authors provide new insights into spontaneous abortion.(Report)
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- Blood Weekly
- Article date:
- November 20, 2008
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In this recent study, researchers in Ankara, Turkey conducted a study "To investigate the significance of platelet-derived microparticles (PMPs) in women with recurrent spontaneous abortion. We measured platelet P-selectin (CD62P) as a platelet activation marker and CD42b(+) microparticles as PMPs by flow cytometry in whole blood of 20 women with recurrent spontaneous abortion and 20 age-matched healthy controls with no previous history of spontaneous abortion."
"PMP levels in women with recurrent spontaneous abortion were higher than in women in the control group (4.79 +/- 1.18% vs 3.06 +/- 0.92%; P 0.000). CD62P levels were not significantly higher in the study ...