Mild therapeutic hypothermia is considered standard care in the treatment of patients
resuscitated from cardiac arrest. With increasingly more frequent concomitant use of platelet …

It must be remembered that clinically important haemostasis occurs in vivo and not in a tube,
and that variables such as the number of bleeding events and bleeding volume are more …

Studies have shown significantly increased thromboembolic events at high altitude. We
recently reported that transferrin could potentiate blood coagulation, but the underlying …

White-nose syndrome (WNS) in North American bats is caused by an invasive cutaneous
infection by the psychrophilic fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd). We compared …

Torpor or heterothermy is an energy‐saving mechanism used by endotherms to overcome
harsh environmental conditions. During winter, the garden dormouse (Eliomys quercinus) …

The detection of temperature by the human sensory system is life-preserving and highly
evolutionarily conserved. Platelets are sensitive to temperature changes and are activated …

Hibernating mammals undergo a dramatic drop in temperature and blood flow during torpor,
yet avoid stasis blood clotting through mechanisms that remain unspecified. The effects of …

Significance: Renal transplantation is the treatment of choice for end-stage renal disease,
during which renal grafts from deceased donors are routinely cold stored to suppress …

Background Therapeutic hypothermia is used to reduce ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI)
during organ transplantation and major surgery, but does not fully prevent organ injury …

Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is frequently
associated with low platelet count (PC) and disturbed platelet function (PF). While PC is …