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Thrombosis (from Ancient Greek θρόμβωσις (thrómbōsis) ' clotting ') is the formation of a blood clot inside a blood vessel, obstructing the flow of blood through the circulatory system.
The GPIb-IX-V complex is a profuse membrane receptor complex originating in megakaryocytes and exclusively functional on the surface of platelets. [1] It primarily functions to mediate the first critical step in platelet adhesion, by facilitating binding to von Willebrand factor (VWF) on damaged sub-endothelium under conditions of high fluid shear stress.
The term thrombocyte (clot cell) came into use in the early 1900s and is sometimes used as a synonym for platelet; but not generally in the scientific literature, except as a root word for other terms related to platelets (e.g. thrombocytopenia meaning low platelets).
Lots of Silurian and Devonian scorpions were previously thought to be gill-breathing, hence the idea that scorpions were primitively aquatic and evolved air-breathing book lungs later on. [87] However subsequent studies reveal most of them lacking reliable evidence for an aquatic lifestyle, [ 88 ] while exceptional aquatic taxa (e.g ...
The air traffic is roughly divided between flights connecting to destinations within the Papua region and flights linking Papua to other parts of Indonesia. The airport connects Jayapura with other Indonesian cities such as Manado , Makassar , Surabaya and Jakarta , as well as towns within the region such as Biak , Timika and Merauke .