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The shrinkage of an occlusive thrombus has been investigated in previous work, which is defined in this study as the normalized area of shrinkage per time. The mechanism of clot shrinkage caused by platelets has been studied less for healthy and diseased blood. Contraction of a platelet is cause...
The wider section at each end of the bone is called theepiphysis(plural =epiphyses), which is filled with spongy bone. Red marrow fills the spaces in the spongy bone. Each epiphysis meets the diaphysis at the metaphysis, the narrow area that contains theepiphyseal plate(growth plate), a la...
A minute, nonnucleated, disklike cytoplasmic body found in the blood plasma of mammals that is derived from a megakaryocyte and functions to promote blood clotting. Also calledblood platelet,thrombocyte. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by...
When a clot forms in a vein this is called venous thrombosis. Venous thrombosis can blot blood flow through the vein and cause painful swelling in the affected area and can also break off and travel into the lungs where the clot can cause a pulmonary embolism....
When a blood vessel is injured, the normal physiological response of the body is to form a clot (thrombus) to prevent blood loss. Alternatively, even without injury to the blood vessel, the pathological condition called thromboembolism may lead to the formation of circulating blood ...
In addition, fibroblasts migration into the wound clot is also an essential process of HS formation49. Previous reports have shown that Piezo1 is required for mechanical force-induced migration of CHO cells50, gastric cancer cells51, and epithelial cells52. Our in vitro motility assay also ...
when vascular injury has occurred. The cascade is initiated by damaged vasculature and ends in the formation of, in lay terms, a clot. The cascade works through the activation of clotting factors. These factors are always present in the blood ready to be activated ...
Virginia has a master' degree in Education and a bachelors in Sports Medicine/athletic Training The word 'thrombus' is the technical term for a blood clot. A thrombus can form anywhere in the circulatory system. This lesson will explain what a thrombus is and how it is formed. ...
Extracellular DNA trap formation is a cellular function of neutrophils, eosinophils, and basophils that facilitates the immobilization and killing of invading microorganisms in the extracellular milieu. To form extracellular traps, granulocytes release a