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Published in final edited form as: Climacteric. 2009 Apr;12(2):177–184. doi: 10.1080/13697130802488607

Table 2.

Platelet characteristics. Data are given as mean ± SEM (range)

	17β-estradiol ≤20 pg/ml (n = 21)	17β-estradiol > 40 pg/ml (n = 11)
Platelets/μl × 10³	241 ± 10	243 ± 20
P-selectin-positive (%)
Basal	4.4 ± 2.1	2.2 ± 0.4
sTRAP	93 ± 0.6	92 ± 0.7
ADP	67 ± 2.8	70 ± 3.1
PAC-1-positive (%)
Basal	1.0 ± 0.1	0.8 ± 0.2
sTRAP	9.0 ± 1.3 (2–21)	19 ± 4.6 (1–50)^*
ADP	67 ± 2.9 (31–88)	82 ± 2.8 (62–94)^*

sTRAP, thrombin receptor agonist peptide; ADP, adenosine diphosphate

^*

Significantly different from low estrogen, p < 0.05