Dima Shulkin։ Could Blood Platelets Help Shape How the Heart Heals After a Heart Attack?
Dima Shulkin., Co-Founder and CTO at RobotDreams GmbH, shared a post on LinkedIn about a article by Friedrich Reusswig, published in Frontiers in Immunology:
”Could blood platelets help shape how the heart heals after a heart attack?
A 2024 study by Friedrich Reusswig et al., published in Frontiers in Immunology, studied GPVI, a platelet receptor that helps blood platelets respond to damaged tissue.
In experiments with mice, blocking or removing GPVI changed how scar tissue formed in the heart and was linked to better heart function.
This is early research, but it suggests that platelets may do more than stop bleeding after a heart attack.”
Title: Platelets modulate cardiac remodeling via the collagen receptor GPVI after acute myocardial infarction
Authors: Friedrich Reusswig, Matthias Dille, E. Krüger, J. Ortscheid, Tobias Feige, S. Gorressen, J.-W. Fischer, Margitta Elvers
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