Thromboplastin
"Thromboplastin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Constituent composed of protein and phospholipid that is widely distributed in many tissues. It serves as a cofactor with factor VIIa to activate factor X in the extrinsic pathway of blood coagulation.
| Descriptor ID |
D013925
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.124.125.900 D23.119.965
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| Concept/Terms |
Thromboplastin- Thromboplastin
- Coagulin
- Factor III
- Glomerular Procoagulant Activity
- Activity, Glomerular Procoagulant
- Procoagulant Activity, Glomerular
- Prothrombinase
- CD142 Antigens
- Tissue Factor Procoagulant
- Procoagulant, Tissue Factor
- Tissue Thromboplastin
- Thromboplastin, Tissue
- Urothromboplastin
- Blood Coagulation Factor III
- Antigens, CD142
- Coagulation Factor III
- Factor III, Coagulation
- Tissue Factor
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