Some of you have been following the smackdown of Casey Luskin over his attempt to revive the irreducible complexity of the blood clotting cascade. This is a complicated pathway so I wrote a bunch of postings last year to try and explain the pathway at the molecular level.
Theme
Blood Clotting
Here's the complete list in case anyone wants more information in order to follow the discussion.
March 26, 2007
Monday's Molecule #19. Warfarin—an anticoagulant and a rat poison.
March 27, 2007
Vitamin K. Vitamin K plays an important role in blood clotting.
March 28, 2007
Nobel Laureates: Dam and Doisy. Dam: "for his discovery of vitamin K" Doisy: "for his discovery of the chemical nature of vitamin K".
April 2, 2007
Monday's Molecule #20. Heparin—an anticoagulant.
April 2, 2007
Blood Clotting: The Basics. Fibrinogen and how it forms clots.
April 4, 2007
Nobel Laureate: Arne Tiselius. "for his research on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, especially for his discoveries concerning the complex nature of the serum proteins".
April 4, 2007
Blood Clotting: Platelets. What are platelets and how do they form blood clots?
April 4, 2007
Blood Clotting: Extrinsic Activity and Platelet Activation. Description of the activity of thrombin and the activation of blood platelets.
April 5, 2007
Blood Clotting: Intrinsic Activity. The role of factors VIII and IX. Deficiencies in Factor VIII cause hemophilia A an X-linked form of hemophilia that was common in European royal families descending from Queen Victoria.
April 8, 2007
Genes for Hemophilia A & B and von Willebrand disease. Locations of the F8, F9 and vWF genes on human chromosomes X and 12.
April 12, 2007
Inhibiting Blood Clots: Anticoagulants. How does heparin inhibit blood clotting?
April 15, 2007
Human Anticoagulant Genes. Mapping the genes for anticoagulant factors.
April 16, 2007
Dicumarol and Warfarin Inhibit Blood Clotting. The role of vitamin K in blood clotting.
September 26, 2007
A Synthetic Anticoagulant Related to Heparin. Synthesis of a new anticoagulant to replace heparin.
April 26, 2008
Fibrin and Blood Clots.
What does a blog clot look like?
May 10, 2008
On the Evolution of the Blood Clotting Pathway.
Ian Musgrave explains Russel Doolittle's latest results.
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