Platelets: 25 years under the editorship of Stan Heptinstall

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Figure 1. Stan Heptinstall: the retiring editor of PLATELETS.

Table I. Editorial staff for the first edition of PLATELETS in March 1990.

Editor-in-Chief

Dr S Heptinstall, Department of Medicine, University Hospital, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK

Principal Editors

J Dawes (Sydney, Australia), J L McGregor (Lyon, France), D Mikhailidis (London, UK), M A Packham (Toronto, Canada), F E Preston (Sheffield, UK), M C Scrutton (London, UK), R Takahashi (Tokyo, Japan), U Till (Erfurt, GDR)

Editors

B Ashby (Philadelphia, USA), C Chesterman (Randwick, Australia), K J Clemetson (Berne, Switzerland), R W Colman (Philadelphia, USA), P Dandona (London, UK), M Greaves (Sheffield, UK), R A Hutton (London, UK), J Y Jeremy (London, UK), W Lösche (Erfurt, GDR), S J Machin (London, UK), I Morita (Tokyo, Japan), Y Nozawa (Gifu, Japan), R Kinlough-Rathbone (Hamilton, Canada), P Spangenberg (Erfurt, GDR)

Editorial Advisory Board

R Apitz-Castro (Venezuela), M A Barradas (UK), J Belch (UK), D J Betteridge (UK), K R Bruckdorfer (UK), Wen-Chang Chang (Taiwan), G de Gaetano (Italy), L A Harker (USA), J Kambayashi (Japan), J G Kelton (Canada), S J Kirtland (UK), T Kunicki (USA), J F Martin (UK), T Matsuda (Japan), M Mori (Japan), G Schernthaner (Austria), P K Schick (USA), A I Shafer (USA), H Shio (Japan), J B Smith (USA), K Tanoue (Japan), L Viinikka (Finland)

Figure 2. Stan Heptinstall: Start of the journey – discussion with Dr Uwe Till (a principal editor) at the Erfurt Platelet Conference in 1989.

Table II. The content of the first edition of PLATELETS.

EDITORIALS

A New Journal called Platelets

Platelets—Issue Number 1

REVIEWS

Platelet Physiology: A Personal Perspective. Marjorie B. Zucker

Prostaglandin Regulation of Cyclic AMP Metabolism in Human Platelets. B. Ashby

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Platelet Size and Adenine Nucleotides in Patients Undergoing Bone Marrow Ablation: A Useful Model for Studying Platelet Ageing. B. J. Boughton, A. Macwhannell, A. Simpson, R. Hawker

Platelet Aggregation in Primary Raynaud's Phenomenon and the Effect of

Enalapril Administration. A. Dowie, J. L. Francis, O. S. Roath, V. F. Challenor, D. G. Waller

Detection of a Protein in Human Platelet Membranes which Binds Low-density Lipoproteins. D. G. Hassall, K. Desai, J. S. Owen, K. R. Bruckdorfer

Effect of Aspirin and Dipyridamole on Sequential Graft Platelet

Accumulation after Implantation of Small Diameter PTFE Prosthesis. A. G. Nordestgaard, C. S. Marcus, S. E. Wilson

ABSTRACTS

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 3rd Erfurt Workshop on Platelets, held in June 1989 at the Medical Academy of Erfurt, GDR

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Recent Literature on Platelets, supplied by the British Library Information Service

Figure 3. Stan and Lillian Heptinstall at an informal lunch in Boston in 2009. An editor’s work is never done!.