MLKL and Thrombocytopenia: Results demonstrated positive correlations between the degree of thrombocytopenia and both mRNA levels of MLKL (rpb = 0.351; P = 0.018) and Beclin-1 (rpb = 0.418; P = 0.004) while the correlation between RIPK3 expression level and degree of thrombocytopenia was not significant (rpb = 0.250; P = 0.097) (Table 3).