Von Willebrand factor (VWF) is a blood glycoprotein that is required for normal hemostasis,
and deficiency of VWF, or von Willebrand disease (VWD), is the most common inherited …

Platelet adhesion is an essential function in response to vascular injury and is generally
viewed as the first step during which single platelets bind through specific membrane …

The firm adhesion and transplatelet migration of leukocytes on vascular thrombus are both
dependent on the interaction of the leukocyte integrin, Mac-1, and a heretofore unknown …

We recently identified genes encoding tumor endothelial markers (TEM s) that displayed
elevated expression during tumor angiogenesis. From both biological and clinical points of …

Platelet-adhesive mechanisms play a well-defined role in hemostasis and thrombosis, but
evidence continues to emerge for a relevant contribution to other pathophysiological …

Considerable advances have been made in our knowledge of the molecular structure of cell
adhesion molecules, their binding sites, and adhesion complexes. For the cadherins, protein …

DFNA9 is an autosomal dominant, nonsyndromic, progressive sensorineural hearing loss
with vestibular pathology. Here we report three missense mutations in human COCH …

A recombinant peptide encoding the CD1 1 b A domain bound% lrP+ with a high affinity.
Other divalent cations, including Mg?+, ZrP+, NP+, Co2+, and Cd*+, but not Ca2+ or Ba2+ …

In an attempt to identify proteins that might underlie membrane trafficking processes in
ciliates, calcium-dependent, phospholipid-binding proteins were isolated from extracts of …

Inter-α-inhibitor (IαI) and related molecules, collectively referred to as the IαI family, are a
group of plasma protease inhibitors. They display attractive features such as precursor …