A network of membrane-bounded compartments found in blood platelets, where they regulate platelet activation by sequestering or releasing calcium. The dense tubular network exists as thin elongated membranes in resting platelets, and undergoes a major ultrastructural change, to a rounded vesicular form, upon addition of thrombin. [PMID:1322202]
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M5: Ontology GO: Gene Ontology GO:CC: GO Cellular Component
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