thrombin
- noun
- /ˈθrɑːmbɪn/
- Specialized
- Dabigatran acts on the coagulation cascade by directly inhibiting the action of thrombin.
- thrombin inhibitor
- thrombin-antithrombin complex
- thrombin-antithrombin
Examples
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Factor Ha (thrombin) turns fibrinogen into fibrin, and factor Xa turns prothrombin into thrombin.
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Antithrombin inhibits factors in the coagulation cascade, including factor Ha (thrombin) and factor Xa.
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The scientists then passed the variants through a chromatography column to which human thrombin was attached.
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Clipped out, this short sequence also bound to thrombin with high affinity.
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The one-in-a-million molecule that bound to the thrombin in the column was made to reproduce.
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Thrombin-antithrombin complex peaked after 15 minutes of infusion and thereafter began to taper off.
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After the initial generation of thrombin by islet-expressed TF, thrombin-activated platelets start to bind to the islet surface.
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One component contains fibrinogen, aprotinin, and/or factor XIII, and the other is made up of human thrombin dissolved in a calcium chloride solution.
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IBMIR occurs in clinical islet transplantation, as shown by an increase in concentrations of thrombin-antithrombin complex immediately after islet infusion.
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The scientists then passed the variants through a chromatography column to which human thrombin was attached.
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Etymology
Thrombin comes from the Greek root thromb- meaning 'clot' and the ending -in that names many proteins. So thrombin is a blood protein that helps form 'clots', which explains its role in blood clotting.