Healio

Cangrelor inferior to tirofiban for platelet aggregation inhibition during PCI

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The study, which was presented at the virtual PCR e-Course and simultaneously published in Circulation, also ...
TCTMD

Tirofiban Provides Better Platelet Inhibition Than Cangrelor in STEMI Patients

A small study testing the pharmacodynamic effects of several antiplatelet agents suggests that tirofiban (Aggrastat; Medicure), a glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor, may provide “more potent and ...
Nature

Inhibition of ADP-induced Platelet Aggregation by Substituted Amino-acids

AGGREGATION of platelets in the presence of adenosine diphosphate (ADP) appears to be important in hæmostasis and in the genesis of platelet thrombosis. There is evidence that this reaction is common ...
Monthly Prescribing Reference

Ready-to-Use Presentation of Platelet Aggregation Inhibitor Eptifibatide Now Available

Baxter announced the availability of ready-to-use Eptifibatide Injection in a flexible container. Baxter announced the availability of ready-to-use Eptifibatide Injection in a flexible container.
Business Wire

CeleCor Announces Publication of Positive Clinical Results of RUC-4, a Novel Second Generation Platelet GPIIb/IIIa Inhibitor Designed for Subcutaneous Point-of-Care STEMI Therapy

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CeleCor Therapeutics, Inc. announced positive data from the company’s completed phase 1 clinical study of RUC-4 which was published in the Journal of the American Heart ...
Business Wire

CeleCor Therapeutics Announces Positive First-in-Human Data of RUC-4, a Novel Subcutaneous Platelet GPIIb/IIIa Inhibitor, Presented at TCT 2019

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CeleCor Therapeutics, Inc. today announced preliminary positive results in the company’s ongoing phase 1 clinical study with RUC-4, a novel subcutaneous platelet GPIIb/IIIa ...
Healio

Chewed ticagrelor facilitates better platelet inhibition in STEMI

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with STEMI undergoing primary PCI achieved better platelet inhibition by chewing a loading dose of ...
Medscape

Dark Chocolate Inhibits Platelet Aggregation in Healthy Volunteers

The first study to examine the effects of whole-chocolate consumption on ex vivo platelet function has shown that dark chocolate acutely reduces collagen-stimulated platelet aggregation and reduces ...
TCTMD

TICONC: Ticagrelor May Cut Tumor-Induced Platelet Aggregation in Cancer Patients

When cancer cells and platelets mix, the risk of metastasis and cancer-related deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) increases, but a small, proof-of-concept study suggests that the ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Platelet Aggregation in Patients with Laennec's Cirrhosis of the Liver

Proteolytic degradation products of fibrinogen, produced as a result of excessive fibrinolysis, have been demonstrated in the blood of cirrhotic patients. 7,8 Such degradation products, when formed in ...
MarketWatch

Inspire Pharma ends platelet aggregation inhibitor trial

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Inspire Pharmaceuticals Inc. said late Monday that it has terminated its Phase II clinical trial of INS50589 Antiplatelet, based on the unanimous recommendation of its ...