Medically reviewed by Yasmine S. Ali, MD, MSCI A blood clot is a gel-like mass of blood that can form as a natural part of wound healing. But blood clots that occur within arteries or veins can be ...

These salivary proteins include different factors that can impair normal host immune responses, stop platelet aggregation, or degrade fibrin, a major protein in blood clots. Vega-Rodriguez and his ...

One blood protein in particular--fibrin, normally involved in blood coagulation--is responsible for setting off this detrimental cascade. The process has been observed in conditions as diverse as ...

Platelets Convert fibrinogen to fibrin. Fibrin forms a mesh that traps blood. Important in blood clotting and scab formation. Cell fragments (very small).