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Combined deficiency of protease-activated receptor-4 and fibrinogen recapitulates the hemostatic defect but not the embryonic lethality of prothrombin deficiency.
Blood - 1 Jan 2004
Camerer Eric, Duong Daniel N, Hamilton Justin R, Coughlin Shaun R
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The availability of the relevant mutant mouse lines provided an opportunity to test the doctrine that platelet activation and fibrin formation account for the importance of thrombin for hemostasis. Prothrombin-deficient mice that survive to birth exsanguinate in the perinatal period. By contrast,...
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