News tagged with thrombin receptor
First-in-class compound proves safe, tolerable in preventing blood clots
A new drug derived from magnolia trees appears to be able to uncouple two important functions of thrombin in blood clot formation and may offer a way to better control the potentially dangerous complications of bleeding and ...
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Mar 12, 2009 |
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Simpler times: Did an earlier genetic molecule predate DNA and RNA?
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the chemistry of the living world, a pair of nucleic acids—DNA and RNA—reign supreme. As carrier molecules of the genetic code, they provide all organisms with a mechanism for ...
Jan 09, 2012 |
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Faster diagnostics through cheap, ultra-portable blood testing
Blood tests are important diagnostic tools. They accurately tease-out vanishingly small concentrations of proteins and other molecules that help give a picture of overall health or signal the presence of specific ...
Sep 01, 2011 |
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Control of blood clotting by platelets described; provides medical promise
Cell fragments called platelets are essential to promote blood clotting. Virginia Tech faculty members and students have discovered novel molecular interactions at the surface of platelets that control blood clotting.
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Nov 24, 2009 |
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How life-threatening blood clots take hold
When plaques coating blood vessel walls rupture and expose collagen, platelets spring into action to form a blood clot at the damaged site. Now, a new report in the April 17th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press public ...
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Apr 16, 2009 |
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Key found to breakthrough drug for clot victims
A team of researchers at Oregon Health & Science University and Washington University in St. Louis have described for the first time the mechanism that gives a mutant enzyme molecule that they have engineered – and patented ...
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Mar 10, 2008 |
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Scientists studying sepsis in mice find potential drug targets for deadly disease
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have uncovered a connection between blood coagulation and the immune system that may have important implications for people with sepsis, a severe and difficult to treat disease ...
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Feb 27, 2008 |
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