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Tissue factor deficiency causes cardiac fibrosis and left ventricular dysfunction.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 26 Nov 2002
Pawlinski R, Fernandes A, Kehrle B, Pedersen B, Parry G, Erlich J, Pyo R, Gutstein D, Zhang J, Castellino F, Melis E, Carmeliet P, Baretton G, Luther T, Taubman M, Rosen E, Mackman N
Abstract excerpt
Exposure of blood to tissue factor (TF) activates the extrinsic (TF:FVIIa) and intrinsic (FVIIIa:FIXa) pathways of coagulation. In this study, we found that mice expressing low levels of human TF ( approximately 1% of wild-type levels) in an mTF(-/-) background had significantly shorter lifespans...
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