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Fibrinolytic Activities present in Human Blood Platelets

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BLOOD platelets have been shown to contain antiplasmin activity1–3. The experiments to be described in this communication demonstrate that blood platelets interfere in still another way in fibrinolysis. The fibrinolytic activity brought about by streptokinase comprises two steps4 : (1) activation of a proactivator which could be identical in man with plasminogen ; (2) transformation of plasminogen to plasmin by the activator, resulting from reaction (1).

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  1. RUDOLF HOLEMANS: On leave of absence from the Department of Medicine, University of Louvain, Belgium, with a scholarship of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst.

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HOLEMANS, R., GROSS, R. Fibrinolytic Activities present in Human Blood Platelets. Nature 189, 238–239 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/189238a0

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