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.) | | | 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. | Click on picture to magnify (61K)
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