Inhibition mechanisms of hematophagous invertebrate compounds acting on the host blood coagulation and platelet aggregation pathways

Biochimie

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 493-500

  Urata, Junko ^b   Shojo, Hideki ^c   Kaneko, Yuji ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anticoagulant; Hematophagous invertebrate; Platelet adhesion; Platelet aggregation; Thrombin; Tight binding inhibitor

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ANTITHROMBIN III; APYRASE; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 10A; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 12; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 13; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 5; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7A; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 8; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 8A; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 9; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 9A; COLLAGEN; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; FIBRONECTIN; GLYCOPROTEIN IB; HEPARIN; HIRUDIN; PROTEIN C; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; THROMBIN; THROMBIN INHIBITOR; THROMBOCYTE RECEPTOR; THROMBOMODULIN; UNINDEXED DRUG; VITRONECTIN; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ANTICOAGULATION; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; BLOOD CLOTTING; HOMEOSTASIS; HOST; INVERTEBRATE; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THROMBOCYTE ADHESION; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION;

INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037518400     PISSN: 03009084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-9084(03)00071-3     Document Type: Review

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