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Vigorous exercise increased platelet counts 1.43-fold in normal human subjects, demonstrating the presence of a nonsplenic platelet pool.
Vigorous exercise and epinephrine infusion demonstrate the presence of a nonsplenic platelet pool by increasing platelet counts.
Exercise may alter platelet counts in healthy subjects; leaves open relevance to thrombocytopenia or antiplatelet management.
A nonsplenic platelet pool was noted in humans subjected to exercise and in rabbits and dogs subjected to epinephrine infusion. Following vigorous exercise, 10 normal subjects raised their platelet count 1.43-fold (p
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Freedman et al. (1977) studied this question. Vigorous exercise increased platelet counts 1.43-fold in normal human subjects, demonstrating the presence of a nonsplenic platelet pool.
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