Platelets and their response to acute changes in blood flow

L-R: Ms Nurul Abidin Zainal, Dr Warwick Nesbitt and Dr Crispin Szydzik
are authors on the paper

In world-first research to combine computational models of blood flow with single platelet signalling studies, a Monash collaborative study has found that platelets are able to sense acute changes in blood flow found within diseased vessels or blood-contacting devices through a unique mechano-sensor. 

The team includes Australian Centre for Blood Diseases (ACBD) researchers, in collaboration with Alfred Health, University of Melbourne (Engineering & Medicine) and RMIT University (Engineering).