Medically reviewed by Yasmine S. Ali, MD, MSCI A blood clot is a gel-like mass of blood that can form as a natural part of wound healing. But blood clots that occur within arteries or veins can be ...

Thrombin mediates fibrin polymerization and is known to be involved in acute and chronic inflammatory processes in vivo. Flick et al. have used various genetically engineered mouse models to study ...

That is the first step in the formation of a clot, with the initial clumped platelets later bound together by the addition of fibrin – which is the target of current thrombolytic drugs like ...