It can also be readily extracted from out-of-date human blood platelets.
The hemophiliac, or H gene, produces male issue with a lack of blood platelets.
What if he could use the same principle to separate water from blood platelets to stop wounds from bleeding?
It accomplishes this by preventing blood platelets from clumping together.
In more severe cases, transfusions of blood platelets may be necessary.
"Much more than it was when we were the size of a red corpuscle or even of a blood platelet."
It is also expressed in sympathetic neurons and blood platelets.
There, it is actively taken up by blood platelets, which store it.
His ability to heal comes from his Kryptonian blood platelets.
Chemotherapy patients, especially, need blood platelets, which aid clotting following treatment.