Calcium electrode--a method for the continuous monitoring of the platelet release reaction.
The calcium electrode is a convenient, inexpensive, and non-traumatic method for measuring changes in the extracellular calcium which accompanies a platelet release reaction. With this instrument, the temporal pattern of release by platelets in a buffered-saline medium following thrombin stimulation was observed as follows: an initial time lag phase, followed by a maximum release phase, and finally a slow release phase.
D001792:Blood Platelets; D002118:Calcium; D004566:Electrodes; D005110:Extracellular Space; D006801:Humans; D013917:Thrombin
D013917:Thrombin; D002118:Calcium