VETERINARY CLINICAL PATHOLOGY, cilt.37, sa.2, ss.159-163, 2008 (SCI-Expanded)
Background: Platelets are of great importance in the pathogenesis of endotoxemia. Although thrombocytopenia is used as a diagnostic sign of endotoxemia, changes in values for platelet indices (plateletcrit [PCT], mean platelet volume [MPV], and platelet size distribution width [PDW]) in response to endotoxin are still unknown.