Although the clot-promoting activity of foreign surfaces has been the subject of many studies dur- ing almost a century (1) its nature is not yet un- derstood. While glass has been thought to acti- vate platelets (2), recent studies have mostly been concerned with the effect of glass on plasma clot- ting factors.
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