What is prothrombin time (PTT)?
Prothrombin time is taken on a plasma sample to determine its coagulation (exogenously).
Prothrombin time is measured for the following purposes:
determining the hemorrhagic tendency associated with deficiency of coagulation factors type II, V, VII or X, monitoring anticoagulant treatment using antivitamins K, determining liver disorders associated with vitamin K deficiency.
2️⃣ Adriani highlights a study that explores targeting Factor XI to prevent dangerous clots like DVT and pulmonary embolism—avoiding the bleeding risks of current treatments. #preprint from the Yamashita Lab.
#preLight: https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/factor-xi-localization-in-human-deep-venous-thrombus-and-function-of-activated-factor-xi-on-venous-thrombus-formation-and-hemostasis-in-rabbit/
#biochemistry #medicine #coagulation #hemostasis #pathology #VTE
Could blood thinners be made safer? This study explores targeting Factor XI to prevent dangerous clots like DVT and pulmonary embolism—avoiding the bleeding risks of current treatments
research article from 2011:
N-acetylcysteine reduces the size and activity of von Willebrand factor in human plasma and mice
https://www.jci.org/articles/view/41062
The building blocks of new #planets could form more easily than previously thought.
Some studies have suggested that #dust grains are not so sticky, and that their growth may be limited by fragmentation in #planet-forming regions because of high collision velocities.
But new results demonstrate that clumping and #coagulation processes help each other to proceed quickly, acting as a positive-feedback loop.
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-growth-planets-easily-previously-thought.html
Paper by Ryosuke & Tanaka (2024):
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad002e
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BLAST
OF
HASHTAGS
TO KICKSTART
MY MASTODON ADVENTURE
WITH
THIS
TOOT-A-THON! 😂
(hashtags please do the magic!)
#Mom #ally #NewPI #StanfordMed #platelets #blood
#translationalscience #genomicmedicine #NIH
#fgli #blm #WomeninSTEM #diversity #equity #inclusion #access #disparities
#thrombosis #coagulation #cardiooncology #biomarkers #genotype #phenotype
#precisionmedicine
@ahather I've got a vague recollection that there's stuff in saliva that is good for minor cuts. That's why there's an impulse to lick them.
I think it's to do with #coagulation science, but it's a few decades since I did any of that seriously
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