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Thrombin-activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor influences disease severity in humans and mice with pneumococcal meningitis.
Journal of thrombosis and haemostasis : JTH - 1 Nov 2015
Mook-Kanamori B B, Valls Serón M, Geldhoff M, Havik S R, van der Ende A, Baas F, van der Poll T, Meijers J C M, P Morgan B, Brouwer M C, van de Beek D
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BACKGROUND: Mortality and morbidity in patients with bacterial meningitis result from the proinflammatory response and dysregulation of coagulation and fibrinolysis. Thrombin-activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor (TAFI) is activated by free thrombin or thrombin in complex with thrombomodulin, and plays an antifibrinolytic role during fibrin clot degradation, but also has an anti-inflammatory role by inactivating...
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