BASIC SCIENCE: Wound Healing
Blood Coagulation Page 2
| Platelets adhere to exposed collagen in the vessel wall and change form. (Click on picture at right to download a Quicktime animation.) |
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| The platelets attract other platelets at the platelet plug to form a clump which becomes a thrombus (platelet aggregation.) |
| A network of fibrins forms around the thrombus and captures erythrocytes and other blood components to seal the wound. |
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| As the clot dries it forms a scab which protects the wound site from dehydration and pathogen invasion. |
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