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what are blood platelets made of?

Postby vaibhavsmarty » Sun Sep 02, 2007 4:15 pm

hey.....
can anyone of u tell me about actual composition of platelets.i've searched the web but everyone mentions about blood constituents and not whether they are cells or something proteinaceous? :?
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Postby Katy_Bobbles » Sun Sep 02, 2007 4:58 pm

They part cells. They are fragments of their parent cells, megakaryocytes. Parts of the megakaryocytes bud off from the membrane releasing a vesicle contaioning about 1000 platelets. Hope this explains it for you. If not ask me! :)
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Postby MrMistery » Sun Sep 02, 2007 4:58 pm

Neither. Blood platelets are fragments of cells. So they still have a membrane and cytosol, but only some organelles, whichever end up there by chance when a megakaryocyte splits into many plateles.
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Postby Katy_Bobbles » Sun Sep 02, 2007 5:00 pm

SNAP! We even posted it at the same time!
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Postby vaibhavsmarty » Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:43 pm

thanx katy that solved ma problem
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