A hereditary deficiency in a multimeric protein leads to abnormalities in this process in Von Willebrand disease.
Prekallikrein complexes with a kininogen and Factor XII during the intrinsic pathway for this process. A serine protease found in this pathway is known as the Christmas factor. A hereditary deficiency in a multimeric protein leads to abnormalities in this process in Von Willebrand disease. Thrombin proteolyzes fibrinogen to form a fibrin network at the start of this process, the rate of which is decreased by the drug warfarin, which reduces Vitamin K. Various hemophilias result from a defect in this pathway, which works because platelets aggregate and trap other blood cells. For 10 points, name this process by which the body stops bleeding.
Prekallikrein complexes with a kininogen and Factor XII during the intrinsic pathway for this process.
blood coagulation [or blood clotting; or word forms]