Platelet spreading and clot contraction are controlled by different pathways. This discovery leads to safer treatments for ...

Coagulation of blood involves proteins called clotting ... Clotting is initiated by two processes or pathways - a slower but larger intrinsic pathway (contact activation pathway) or a very rapid ...

While nanoparticle interactions with various constituents of the immune system have been reviewed before, little attention was given to nanoparticle effects on the blood coagulation system.

When skin is cut or damaged, tiny cell fragments circulating in the blood, called platelets, arrive at the injury and spread ...

The difference in neonatal presentation may be more on a quantitative continuum (blood levels ... and initiate coagulation through activation of the extrinsic pathway, while thrombin formation ...

Until recently, researchers believed that platelet spreading and clot contraction were controlled by the same pathway. However a recent study from Thomas Jefferson University researchers challenges ...