Statistics for Vascular Reactions to Injury

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  • The average score is 8 of 15

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HintAnswer% Correct
What is being described here? A mass composed from blood constituents within the circulation during life.Thrombus
100%
What is it called when this mass travels off and blocks a vessel elsewhere?Embolism
75%
What is described? "Anuclear discs, with a life span of ~7 days, produced by fragmentation of the cytoplasm of megakaryocytes in bone marrow"Platelet
75%
What system is used to disassemble the plug afterwards?Fibrinolytic
50%
What gaseous substance that can cause vasodilatation is a potent platelet inhibitor?Nitric oxide/NO
50%
What is the name for the key active protease in this system?Plasmin
50%
What is the initial block that occurs due to fibrinogen binding the platelets together referred to as?Primary haemostatic plug
50%
What condition whos name derives from the purple colour of the regions of skin affected occurs due to reduced platelet count and bleeding from skin capillaries?Purpura
50%
Activation of the coagulation system leads to the production of which enzyme that then causes conversion of fibrinogen into insoluble fibrin, and creates a solid mass through fusion?Thrombin
50%
What chemical that is released leads to aggregation of them due to increasing their recruitment?Thromboxane A2/TxA2
50%
What factor mediates adhesion of them, by bridging between exposed collagen (in endothelial damage) and glycoprotein IB on their surface?Von Willebrand
50%
Two of the three are, changes in vessel wall, changes in blood constituents, and what third aspect of blood change may predispose?Flow
25%
After adhesion activation of them occurs comprising of two key components secretion of chemicsal signals and which other?Shape change
25%
What molecule that is produced by endothelial cells leads to activation of fibrinolysis?Tissue Plasminogen Activator/tPA
25%
Whose set of three rules defines the predisposing factors for thrombus formation?Virchow's
25%

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