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What forms a sticky net in a blood clot?
platelets!!
What does blood contain that causes blood clotting?
Platelets
What components are needed for platelets to form a sticky clot?
Platelets react to tissue factor found outside the blood vessel when it is ruptured. The platelets, when activated, clump together with albumin, fibrin, and other clotting factors in the blood to form a protective clot.
What releases Substances That Start The Process Of Blood Clotting?
Injury causes damaged tissue cells to produce prothrombin activator. This, along with clotting factor produced by the sticky platelets at the damaged site, cause prothrombin + calcium to make thrombin. All the while fibrinogen is stimulated to make fibrin. The fibrin ensnares RBCs to form the clot with the platelets. All factors have to be there for the clotting to occur. Lack of any of them causes bleeding disorders.
What is the function of plateles?
Platelets are irregularly-shaped, colorless bodies. They are present in blood. Platelets are the smallest and lightest blood cells. Their function is to form clots to stop bleeding. (THEY PREVENT BLEEDING). Their sticky surface allows them to do this.
What happens when platelets become low in your body?
you die
What causes unclotted blood?
The clotting factor of blood is referred to as platelets. When someone's body does not produce enough platelets, their blood may not clot properly.
When you get a minor cut platelets in your blood stick to the wound cause threads to form a clot?
When you get a cut, the plateletes collect at the site to form a sticky plug. They secrete a chemical, serotonin, which causes the blood vessel to spasm and narrow, decreasing the flow of blood. It is what forms a scab.
What causes a high white count and low platelets?
Liver cancer/ leukemia
How do platelets protect the body?
Platelets help defend the body from bacterial pathogens. By keeping infection out, they are able to help us stay healthy.
Do platelets cause blood to clot or prevent blood to clot?
It release an Enzyme that changes fibrinogen ( a liquefied fibre ) in to fibrin ( a solid Fibre )
What process stops the leakage of blood from the vascular system after an injury?
First the platelet phase occurs in which the endothelial cells become sticky as to where the injury occurred then platelets come in releasing a hormone seratonin to make the vessels go into spasm and then the platelets form a platelet plug after that the coagulation phase occurs as the fibrinogen turns into fibrin to make strands in order to stop the continous bleeding
