BALB/c, C57BL/6, and splenectomized BALB/c mice were purchased from Charles River Canada. IL-4Rα/GPIbα-tg [91 (link)], GPIb−/− [92 (link)], β3−/− [93 (link)], and Asgr2−/− [94 (link)] mice were gifts from J. Ware, Z. M. Ruggeri, R. O. Hynes, and K. Hoffmeister, respectively. FVIII-deficient (FVIIInull) mice were a gift from H. Kazazian. 2bF8Tg mice, which are transgenic animals with platelet-specific human B domain-deleted FVIII expression, were generated by lentiviral transgenesis as previously reported [60 (link),95 (link)]. All mice were used between 8 and 16 weeks for experiments. All animal studies were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of either the St. Michael’s Hospital, Canada, or the Medical College of Wisconsin, USA.
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