Isolation of Myosin from Mammalian Blood Platelets

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to determine if pig, bovine or rabbit blood platelets can be used instead of human blood platelets for myosin IIB isolation in experiments involving the inhibition of myosin IIB, which would make future research involving the inhibition of myosin IIB much easier to conduct, since all of these mammalian blood platelets are significantly easier and less expensive to acquire than human blood platelets.