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Platelets and Thrombin Generation [PDF]
This review examines the evidence that platelets play a major role in localizing and controlling the burst of thrombin generation leading to fibrin clot formation. From the first functional description of platelets, it has been recognized that platelets supply factors that support the activation of prothrombin.
Dougald M, Monroe +2 more
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Genetic Determinants of Thrombin Generation and Their Relation to Venous Thrombosis: Results from the GAIT-2 Project. [PDF]
BACKGROUND:Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a common disease where known genetic risk factors explain only a small portion of the genetic variance. Then, the analysis of intermediate phenotypes, such as thrombin generation assay, can be used to identify ...
Laura Martin-Fernandez +10 more
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Thrombin generation in the Glasgow Myocardial Infarction Study. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Thrombin is a key protease in coagulation also implicated in complex pathology including atherosclerosis. To address the role of thrombin in relation to myocardial infarction (MI) we explored thrombin generation analysis in plasma from ...
Machiel Smid +7 more
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Usefulness of Thrombin Generation [PDF]
AbstractThrombin generation (TG) is a global coagulation procedure meant to continuously monitor thrombin formation and decay upon exposure of platelet-poor plasma to exogenous triggers such as tissue factor, phospholipids, and calcium chloride. The procedure can also be performed in platelet-rich plasma by omitting exogenous phospholipids.
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Evaluation of the hemostatic potential at coronary artery bypass surgery during long-term aspirin therapy [PDF]
Aim. To estimate thrombin generation test parameters in patients with coronary heart disease during coronary artery bypass surgery under extracorporeal circulation after transfusion of donor platelet concentrates during long-term therapy with ...
O V Gruzdeva +8 more
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Defining the boundaries of normal thrombin generation: investigations into hemostasis. [PDF]
In terms of its soluble precursors, the coagulation proteome varies quantitatively among apparently healthy individuals. The significance of this variability remains obscure, in part because it is the backdrop against which the hemostatic consequences of
Christopher M Danforth +4 more
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Thrombin generation assays: accruing clinical relevance [PDF]
After decades of near oblivion, thrombin generation is being revived as an overall function test of the plasmatic coagulation system in platelet-poor plasma (PPP). In platelet-rich plasma (PRP) it assesses platelet procoagulant functions as well.The recently developed use of special fluorogenic thrombin substrates allows monitoring of thrombin ...
Hemker, H. Coenraad +2 more
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We investigated the relationships between circulating procoagulants and trauma severity, including cellular destruction, and the effects of thrombin generation on procoagulants in a rat blunt trauma model. The rats were subjected to tumbling blunt trauma,
Mineji Hayakwa MD, PhD +8 more
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Background Both andexanet alfa and four‐factor prothrombin complex concentrate (4F‐PCC) are clinically applied reversal agents for direct factor Xa inhibitors (FXaIs) in emergency situations. Controversy exists whether 4F‐PCC is as effective as andexanet
Herm Jan M. Brinkman +2 more
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Background As a strong platelet agonist on the one hand and key molecule in plasmatic coagulation on the other hand, thrombin connects primary and secondary hemostasis.
Silvia Lee +4 more
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