Sentences with phrase «called coagulation»

However, other processes hamper its possibility to grow large enough to substantially influence the climate: Two aerosols can collide together, in a process called coagulation.

An international team of scientists have published a study in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, where they show that the disease is caused by a defective blood protein, the so - called coagulation factor XII.

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With the help of a coagulation factor called thrombin, fibronogen gets converted into fibrin during the blood clotting process.

When heat is applied, starting at about 130 degrees F., the bonds holding these fibers in place begin to relax — that is called denaturing — and then the protein fibers straighten out and link together (coagulation).

Some people, for example, undergo an intensive treatment called immune tolerance induction therapy, which involves regular intravenous administration of coagulation factors.

«ECPR and a factor in the blood called protein C act as a «brake» on blood coagulation and endothelial cell inflammation and also enhance the viability and integrity of blood vessels, but when the malaria parasites use PfEMP1 to bind EPCR, they may interfere with the normal function of EPCR, and thus the binding can be the catalyst for the violent reaction,» he explains.

The study, called the Minimizing Adverse Hemorrhagic Events by Transradial Access Site and Systemic Implementation of AngioX Program (MATRIX), randomized more than 7,200 patients undergoing angioplasty at 78 hospitals in four European countries to bivalirudin or standard coagulation therapy.

Factor VIIIa is also inactivated by a protein in the coagulation cascade called activated protein C. Gale and his colleagues hope that activated protein C would still be able to degrade Factor VIIIa and that clotting would not get out of hand.

This competition effect is troubling because among the many uses the body has for omega - 3s and -6 s, it converts them to signaling molecules called eicosanoids, which promote unhealthy amounts inflammation, blood coagulation, and blood vessel constriction.

A rare but serious complication called disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) leads to bleeding problems throughout the body and is difficult to treat.

This is called disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) and is usually fatal.

In serious cases this can cause a bleeding disorder called disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC).

Insults to your dog's body of this magnitude often result in a life threatening condition in which blood both fails to clot and clots where it shouldn't called disseminated intravascular coagulation or DIC.