Figure 2.
Platelet fibrinogen binding. Platelets were isolated from non-hibernating squirrels and incubated with Alexa 488 fluorescently labeled fibrinogen. Some samples were activated with different agonists including ADP, TRAP, and PAR4 activating peptide for 5 minutes. Samples were then fixed with paraformaldehyde, analyzed on a flow cytometer, and normalized to matched unstimulated platelet fibrinogen binding. N=5 samples run in triplicate and analyzed by ANOVA, bars with different letters were significantly different, p<0.05.