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  2. Coagulation - Wikipedia

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    Coagulation, also known as clotting, is the process by which blood changes from a liquid to a gel, forming a blood clot. It results in hemostasis , the cessation of blood loss from a damaged vessel, followed by repair.

  3. Fibrinolysis - Wikipedia

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    Fibrinolysis is a process that prevents blood clots from growing and becoming problematic. [1] Primary fibrinolysis is a normal body process, while secondary fibrinolysis is the breakdown of clots due to a medicine, a medical disorder, or some other cause. [2] In fibrinolysis, a fibrin clot, the product of coagulation, is broken down. [3]

  4. Coagulin - Wikipedia

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    There are two pathways (Tissue factor and Contact) that result in thrombin converting fibrinogen to fibrin. Fibrin monomers noncovalently interact with each other and polymerize to form the blood clot. [11] Fibrin and coagulin are analogous to each other. Similarities between mammalian blood coagulation and hemolymph coagulation include gel ...

  5. Thrombus - Wikipedia

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    A thrombus (pl. thrombi), colloquially called a blood clot, is the final product of the blood coagulation step in hemostasis. There are two components to a thrombus: aggregated platelets and red blood cells that form a plug, and a mesh of cross-linked fibrin protein.

  6. Hemostasis - Wikipedia

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    Coagulation, the changing of blood from a liquid to a gel which forms the fibrin clots, is essential to hemostasis. Intact blood vessels moderate blood's tendency to form clots . The endothelial cells of intact vessels prevent blood clotting with a heparin-like molecule and thrombomodulin , and prevent platelet aggregation with nitric oxide and ...

  7. Factor XII - Wikipedia

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    2161 58992 Ensembl ENSG00000131187 ENSMUSG00000021492 UniProt P00748 Q80YC5 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_000505 NM_021489 RefSeq (protein) NP_000496 NP_067464 Location (UCSC) Chr 5: 177.4 – 177.42 Mb Chr 13: 55.57 – 55.57 Mb PubMed search Wikidata View/Edit Human View/Edit Mouse Coagulation factor XII, also known as Hageman factor, is a plasma protein involved in coagulation. It is the zymogen form of ...

  8. Thrombosis - Wikipedia

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    Thrombosis (from Ancient Greek θρόμβωσις (thrómbōsis) 'clotting') is the formation of a blood clot inside a blood vessel, obstructing the flow of blood through the circulatory system. When a blood vessel (a vein or an artery) is injured, the body uses platelets (thrombocytes) and fibrin to form a blood clot to prevent blood loss ...

  9. Contact activation system - Wikipedia

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    The two arms of the contact system. PKa's cleavage of HK liberates BK and promotes inflammation. FXIIa's cleavage of FXI initiates coagulation. In the contact activation system or CAS, three proteins in the blood, factor XII (FXII), prekallikrein (PK) and high molecular weight kininogen (HK), bind to a surface and cause blood coagulation and ...