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. 2002 Winter;4(1):41–47.

Figure 1.

Figure 1.

Antithrombin's inactivation of factor IIa is accelerated in the presence of unfractionated heparin molecules. Large oligosaccharide chains (>18) are required to bind AT and factor IIa simultaneously. The high-affinity pentasaccharide sequence is represented by the hexagonal figures