“…To develop an approach to examining platelet activation versus apoptosis, we treated human platelets with three agents, a pro-apoptotic BH3-only mimetic, the anti-cancer drug ABT-737 (Oltersdorf et al, 2005;Mason et al, 2007;Zhang et al, 2007;Dasgupta et al, 2010;Mutlu et al, 2012), the potent platelet agonist thrombin (Coughlin, 2005;Lundblad & White, 2005;Leytin et al, 2006aLeytin et al, , 2007Bahou, 2007;Lopez et al, 2008) and calcium ionophore A23187 (Leytin et al, 2004(Leytin et al, , 2006a(Leytin et al, , 2009Rand et al, 2004;Mutlu et al, 2012), known inducers of apoptosis and/or activation in nucleated cells and platelets. We concurrently determined an apoptosis marker, depolarization of mitochondrial inner transmembrane potential (DΨm) (Kroemer & Reed, 2000;Leytin et al, 2004Leytin et al, , 2006aLeytin et al, , 2007Leytin et al, , 2009Rand et al, 2004;Gyulkhandanyan et al, 2012), and a marker of platelet activation, exposure of P-selectin (CD62) on the platelet surface (Stenberg et al, 1985;Michelson et al, 1991;Leytin et al, 2000aLeytin et al, , 2007.…”