We are at the end of the road of our anti-platelet pathway exploration!!!! We look at 2 different ways of inhibiting the platelets from forming a clot and the different patient populations that these drugs are used. Hooray to the anti-platelets though I'm sure this isn't the end there must be...

In today's episode I give a gigantic high five to our scientists/discoveres! Figuring out yet another way to stop clot formation by working out the puzzle of how platelets work to form a clot. With that worked out they then make drugs that put a stop 🛑 to this and voila.... no clots are...

What a lovely name to pronounce Thienopyridines! Another nugget as to how platelets work to cause clots to form and how this class stops that from happening. Very Sci-Fi how these platelets work. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wambui-wamburu/support