title: Self-control of platelets: a new ITIM story.
abstract: In this issue of Blood, Fan et al discover the presence of a new receptor-ligand pair that inhibits platelet activation.
authors.affiliation: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO.
authors.forename: Xiaoping
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Du
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D015539:Platelet Activation; D011971:Receptors, Immunologic / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: C491341:LILRB2 protein, human; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; C105949:Pirb protein, mouse; D011971:Receptors, Immunologic