"Fibrinopeptide A" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Two small peptide chains removed from the N-terminal segment of the alpha chains of fibrinogen by the action of thrombin during the blood coagulation process. Each peptide chain contains 18 amino acid residues. In vivo, fibrinopeptide A is used as a marker to determine the rate of conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin by thrombin.
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D005344
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.644.200 D12.776.124.125.515 D12.776.124.270.310 D12.776.811.300.310 D23.101.340 D23.119.500
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| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fibrinopeptide A" by people in Profiles.
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Effectiveness of heparin in preventing thrombin generation and thrombin activity in patients undergoing coronary intervention. Am Heart J. 1999 Feb; 137(2):250-7.
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Assessments of thrombogenicity by three in vitro techniques. Student Research Award in the Undergraduate, Master Candidate, or Health Science Degree Candidate Category, 21st annual meeting of the Society for Biomaterials, San Francisco, CA, March 18-22, 1995. J Biomed Mater Res. 1995 Sep; 29(9):1039-45.
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Characterization of prothrombin activation during cardiac surgery by hemostatic molecular markers. Anesthesiology. 1994 Mar; 80(3):520-6.
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Characterization of the fibrin polymer structure that accelerates thrombin cleavage of plasma factor XIII. Arch Biochem Biophys. 1988 Apr; 262(1):142-8.