Thrombosis is a harmful activation of the clotting process, which is associated with the occurrence of blood vessel-related diseases. Pathological enhancement of the clotting cascade causes thrombosis ...

Blood flows through the blood vessels to deliver the needed oxygen and nutrients to the different cells in the body. The blood clotting process or coagulation is an important process that prevents ...

Under homeostatic conditions, the body is maintained in a finely tuned balance of coagulation and fibrinolysis. See Figure 1 for a depiction of normal hemostasis. The activation of the coagulation ...

CHAPEL HILL -- New research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found that a fatty molecule on the surface of platelet cells is a regulator of blood coagulation. Besides its role in ...

Von Willebrand factor (VWF) is a protein crucial to the blood clotting process. If you don’t have enough of this protein, or if it doesn’t work as it’s supposed to, you may have von Willebrand disease ...

If you've ever accidentally sliced yourself on broken glass or a piece of paper, you may have noticed that the bleeding can be hard to stop. Scientists have long wondered how the cascade of events ...

DIC related to cancer is always secondary to a well-defined clinical condition. (See Table 1 for a list of common causes of DIC related to cancer.) This point is important to remember, as treatment of ...

image: (top) Citrated whole blood is put between electrodes. When the blood starts coagulation, the permittivity measured by alternating current (AC) increases in relation to the aggregation and ...

The discovery solves a decades long puzzle about what sets off blood clotting. (Nanowerk News) If you’ve ever accidentally sliced yourself on a broken glass or a piece of paper, you may have noticed ...