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Effect of Prolonged Exercise on Platelet Adhesiveness

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IT has been established that changes in platelet adhesiveness occur in a variety of physical and physiological conditions. A close investigation of the various physical conditions that affect adhesiveness showed considerable variations in the degree of adhesiveness in eighteen identical observations on the same subject1; there was also slight increase in adhesiveness after feeding. Many methods have been devised to measure stickiness of platelet, and there has been considerable variation in the observations made. This could mean, that different methods are influenced by a number of factors concerned in adhesiveness2. We have investigated the effect of prolonged exercise on platelet adhesiveness. The study was carried out on a group of sixty healthy young adults who were walking from London to Brighton, about 50 miles. The exercise lasted for about 20 h.

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  1. Department of Haematology, Charing Cross Hospital and Medical School, London

    G. D. PEGRUM, K. M. HARRISON, S. SHAW, ANNE HASELTON & SYLVIA WOLFF

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PEGRUM, G., HARRISON, K., SHAW, S. et al. Effect of Prolonged Exercise on Platelet Adhesiveness. Nature 213, 301–302 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/213301a0

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