RT Journal
T1 CUrrent comment
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1939
FD February 4
VO 112
IS 5
SP 436
OP 436
DO 10.1001/jama.1939.02800050050016
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800050050016
AB BLOOD PLATELETS IN ALLERGY 
    In a preliminary study recently reported by Thiberge,1 blood platelet counts were made on twenty-seven patients with various types of allergic disorders both during an attack and in convalescence. In the five cases of hay fever there was an average rise in the platelet count of 55,600 after subsidence of the attack, in the fifteen cases of asthma there was an average rise of about 17,000 in the platelet count and, in the three cases which failed to show a rise, one was complicated with sinusitis and two with tuberculosis. The platelet counts in the six cases of cutaneous allergy during and after an attack were, however, variable. The author reaches the tentative conclusion that improvement in uncomplicated asthma and hay fever is always indicated by a rise in the number of platelets.MITOTIC RHYTHM IN HUMAN TISSUES 
    The rate of cell division in normal human