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Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is an emerging technique in tissue regeneration, increasingly used to enhance healing in dental and oral surgery, particularly for aging patients. PRP is derived from the patient's blood through centrifugation, concentrating growth factors that are crucial for wound healing and tissue repair.
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Plateletpheresis (more accurately called thrombocytapheresis or thrombapheresis, though these names are rarely used) is the process of collecting thrombocytes, more commonly called platelets, a component of blood involved in blood clotting.
Platelet-Poor Plasma (PPP) is blood plasma with very low number of platelets (< 10 X 10 3 /μL). Traditionally, PPP was recommended for use in platelet aggregation studies to both adjust the platelet-rich plasma concentration, and to serve as a control. [1]
Platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) or leukocyte- and platelet-rich fibrin (L-PRF) is a derivative of PRP where autologous platelets and leukocytes are present in a complex fibrin matrix [1] [2] to accelerate the healing of soft and hard tissue [3] and is used as a tissue-engineering scaffold in oral and maxillofacial surgeries.
The abnormal PrP Sc isoform has a different secondary and tertiary structure from PrP C, but identical primary sequence. Whereas PrP C has largely alpha helical and disordered domains, [21] PrP Sc has no alpha helix and an amyloid fibril core composed of a stack of PrP molecules glued together by parallel in-register intermolecular beta sheets.
The PRP can also be explained by the capacity view. Limited mental resources must be shared when doing two tasks at once. [14] This lacks a bottleneck metaphor; tasks can be performed simultaneously as long as the common pool of resource from which both the tasks pull from is not emptied.