Sentences with phrase «tissue factor»

The cascade starts when a protein called tissue factor is exposed to the bloodstream due to a cut or other injury.

More clinical research is needed to define safety procedures, as well as how many cells of which types and what other tissue factors produce the desired results.

One such protein, tissue factor pathway inhibitor (TFPI), impedes the initiation of coagulation.

Formation of leprosum clots, they showed, was correlated with increased levels of soluble tissue factor and von Willebrand factor.

This is the use of high energy sound waves, ironically called «shockwaves» transmitted to localized body parts especially connective tissues, to stimulate growth of endothelial (blood vessel) cells and release of tissue factors conducive to healing.

Tissue factor ultimately generates thrombin, a clotting enzyme that circulates in the bloodstream as an inactive «zymogen» protein called prothrombin.

When your body senses an invader, tissue factor tells the clotting proteins to form a chemical «spiderweb» that traps bacteria, explains Charles Esmon, a researcher at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation in Oklahoma City.

What we mean is superior joint lengths and connective tissue factors, including attachment placing, as well as greater ligament and tendon strength.

The researchers found that patients both experiencing a reactional episode and those with non-reactional leprosy had factors in their blood — including plasmatic fibrinogen, anti-cardiolipin antibodies, von Willebrand factor, and soluble tissue factor — promoting blood coagulation.

One important communication chemical — called tissue factor — is produced by the blood vessels and by a type of white blood cells called monocytes.

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Signals from pathogens, tissue factors, and other immune cells are involved in defining the immune phenotype of these cell types.

It is also known as the tissue factor pathway.