title: When the brain tells the blood how to clot.
abstract: In this issue of Blood, Tian et al report that during traumatic brain injury, small membrane vesicles, called microparticles, disseminate procoagulant factors from the brain into the systemic circulation. The delivery appears to occur through the disrupted blood-brain barrier.
authors: CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DU CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE QUÉBEC.
authors: Eric
authors: E
authors: Boilard
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001777:Blood Coagulation; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology*; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000097:blood* / Q000473:pathology*; D055252:Cell-Derived Microparticles / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male