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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 21.
Published in final edited form as: Biotechnol Bioeng. 2011 Apr 26;108(10):2424–2433. doi: 10.1002/bit.23184

Figure 1. Coagulation Cascade.

Figure 1

(A) Intrinsic and extrinsic coagulation pathways and the targets of common anticoagulant drugs. (B) Thrombin exposes fibrin knob domains that in turn initiate fibrin assembly via knob:hole interactions. (C) Fibrin knobs interfere with fibrin monomer assembly and polymerization by competing for fibrin hole domains.