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What is the function of Transport materials to and from the body's cells.
blood
What are the three stages vascular constriction, platelet plug formation,
of hemostasis? coagulation
What is vitamin K needed factors II, VII, IX, and X, prothrombin, and protein C
to synthesize?
begins with activation of factor XII and can cause
Intrinsic pathway clotting in 1 to 6 minutes, considered the slower
process.
can cause clotting in 15 seconds and begins with the
extrinsic pathway release of tissue thromboplastin from the
subendothelial cells.
both form prothrombin activator, Both pathways
what is true about intrinsic converge to activate factor X, the conversion of
and extrinsic pathways? prothrombin to thrombin, Both methods are needed
for successful hemostasis.
What are the natural and Antithrombin III, protein C, protein S, warfarin,
drug therapy heparin, Dabigatran, Rivaroxaban, Apixaban
anticoagulants?
What is peripheral The collective resistance of all the vessels in the
vascular resistance? peripheral circulation