Journalartikel

Jahr der Veröffentlichung: 2007

Seiten: 979-991

Zeitschrift: Circulation Research

Bandnummer: 100

Heftnummer: 7

ISSN: 0009-7330

eISSN: 1524-4571

Open Access Status: Bronze

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1161/01.RES.0000261936.85776.5f

Verlag: American Heart Association

Abstract: 
Platelets play a central role in hemostasis, but also in atherothrombosis, as they rapidly adhere to tissue and to one another as a response to any vascular injury. This process involves a large number of surface receptors, signaling pathways, and enzymatic cascades as well as their complex interplay. Although in vitro experiments proved successful in both identifying new receptors and pathways and developing potent and selective antithrombotic drugs, in vitro research cannot mimic the myriad hemodynamic and spatiotemporal cellular and molecular interactions that occur during the generation and propagation of thrombi in vivo. Animal models, and, with the availability of genetically modified mouse strains and of modern intravital imaging techniques, mouse models in particular, have opened new ways to identify both individual roles and the interplay of platelet proteins in complex in vivo settings. In vivo models revealed the important role of, eg, Gas6 or blood coagulation factor XII in thrombus formation, and results obtained in in vivo models raised the interesting possibility that (physiologic) hemostasis and (pathologic) thrombosis might represent 2 mechanistically different processes. This review summarizes in vivo findings that contributed significantly to our understanding of hemostatic and thrombotic processes and which may help to guide future research.

Harvard-Zitierstil: Sachs, U. and Nieswandt, B. (2007) In vivo thrombus formation in murine models, Circulation Research, 100(7), pp. 979-991. https://doi.org/10.1161/01.RES.0000261936.85776.5f

APA-Zitierstil: Sachs, U., & Nieswandt, B. (2007). In vivo thrombus formation in murine models. Circulation Research. 100(7), 979-991. https://doi.org/10.1161/01.RES.0000261936.85776.5f