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<haematology> Blood clotting factors, especially from humans. These factors form a cascade in which the activation of the first factor leads to enzymic attack on the next factor and so on, finally resulting in blood clotting.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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