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IT has been suggested that the tail frequently observed in a platelet survival study could be explained by a young population of platelets having a longer life span than the remainder1. The following experiments demonstrated the presence of two morphologically different populations, following the exposure of human platelets to osmotic stress.
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WEBBER, A., FIRKIN, B. Two Populations of Platelets. Nature 205, 1332 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/2051332a0
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