Platelet transcription factors - can anyone help?

31 October 2013 0 1K Report

Several proteomic studies have shown that platelets possess transcription factors - is there any evidence to suggest that transcription factors play a role in platelet biology or are they simply carried over from the megakaryocyte during proplatelet formation and release?

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