Nature Communications (Dec 2021)

Massive image-based single-cell profiling reveals high levels of circulating platelet aggregates in patients with COVID-19

  • Masako Nishikawa,
  • Hiroshi Kanno,
  • Yuqi Zhou,
  • Ting-Hui Xiao,
  • Takuma Suzuki,
  • Yuma Ibayashi,
  • Jeffrey Harmon,
  • Shigekazu Takizawa,
  • Kotaro Hiramatsu,
  • Nao Nitta,
  • Risako Kameyama,
  • Walker Peterson,
  • Jun Takiguchi,
  • Mohammad Shifat-E-Rabbi,
  • Yan Zhuang,
  • Xuwang Yin,
  • Abu Hasnat Mohammad Rubaiyat,
  • Yunjie Deng,
  • Hongqian Zhang,
  • Shigeki Miyata,
  • Gustavo K. Rohde,
  • Wataru Iwasaki,
  • Yutaka Yatomi,
  • Keisuke Goda

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27378-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The authors report the landscape of circulating platelet aggregates in COVID-19 obtained by massive single-cell image-based profiling and temporal monitoring to elucidate the underlying process of COVID-19-assocaited microvascular thrombosis.