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anticoagulantSubstance that inhibits the formation of blood clots. Common anticoagulants are heparin, produced by the liver and some white blood cells, and derivatives of coumarin, such as warfarin. Anticoagulants are used medically in the prevention and treatment of thrombosis and heart attacks. Anticoagulant substances are also produced by blood-feeding animals, such as mosquitoes, leeches, and vampire bats, to keep the victim's blood flowing. Most anticoagulants prevent the production of thrombin, an enzyme that induces the formation from blood plasma of fibrinogen, to which blood platelets adhere and form clots. |
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Anticoagulants can hike abnormal bleeding, and 8 percent of each group reported bleeding. But the anticoagulants have been implicated in the deaths of mountain lions, foxes, bobcats and eagles that eat the smaller, poisoned rodents. She took medication for reflux occasionally; she had not been taking any anticoagulants or birth control pills. |
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