Figure 1.

Inhibitory effect of CLA on clot retraction. Nonactivated (NA) and TRAP-activated samples displayed an intense clot retraction by 60 minutes, while CLA-pretreated samples were much less retracted (a). This significant difference could be observed by the lower quantity of extruded serum in CLA-pretreated samples (b) and a tendency could be observed to display higher fibrin monomer concentrations in CLA-pretreated samples (c). Nonactivated and activated samples are indicated with open bars and CLA-preincubated samples are represented by the black bars. The results are the mean and standard error of the mean (SEM) of 5 different experiments. Statistical significance was assessed by paired t-test. ^∗∗p < 0.01. ns = nonsignificant.