{"id":96943,"date":"2026-02-03T11:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=96943"},"modified":"2026-02-03T11:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:39:15","slug":"how-tiny-blood-cells-called-platelets-help-calm-the-virus-war-inside-your-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/02_03_2026\/how-tiny-blood-cells-called-platelets-help-calm-the-virus-war-inside-your-body","title":{"rendered":"How Tiny Blood Cells Called Platelets Help Calm the Virus War Inside Your Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olalekan Olatunji,<i> <\/i>a doctoral student in the College of Medicine and Life Sciences\u2019 Biomedical Science Program, writes about his research into the reaction of virus-fighting white blood cells to a protein released by platelets.<\/p>\n<p><b>Read: <\/b><b><u><a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.toledoblade.com%2Fa-e%2Fculture%2F2026%2F02%2F02%2Fhow-tiny-blood-cells-called-platelets-help-calm-virus-war-inside-body%2Fstories%2F20260202002&amp;data=05%7C02%7CNicole.Gorny%40UToledo.Edu%7Cb4c5b9dd3fdf49885a3408de63386c91%7C1d6b1707baa94a3da8f8deabfb3d467b%7C0%7C0%7C639057293472706330%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=cZdjeMt18rkXEUCbPZzGf6r13reW887LzLodEgbyZEQ%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-outlook-id=\"a7217683-e9a2-4235-aa87-80a45a372bac\">How Tiny Blood Cells Called Platelets Help Calm the Virus War Inside Your Body<\/a><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olalekan Olatunji, a doctoral student in the College of Medicine and Life Sciences\u2019 Biomedical Science Program, writes about his research into the reaction of virus-fighting white blood cells to a protein released by platelets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[81],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96944,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96943\/revisions\/96944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}