History
The subsequent studies, following Eduard Glanzmanns  description of hemorrhagic symptoms and "weak platelets" demonstrated that these patients have prolonged bleeding times and their platelets failed to aggregate in response to activation. In the mid-1970s, Nurden and Caen and Phillips and colleagues discovered that thrombasthenic platelets are deficient in integrins  αIIbβ3. See also
Platelet
Coagulation
Bernard-Soulier syndrome

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