Fruiting structure consists of a tapered column of stalk cells that carries a spherical mass of spores aloft.

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#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Activated protein C (APC), along with its cofactor protein S, inactivates factors V and VIII and inactivates an inhibitor of tissue plasminogen activator, increasing the formation of plasmin.

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#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Plasmin (fibrinolysin) is the active component of the plasminogen (fibrinolytic) system. 

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#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Plasmin lyses fibrin and fibrinogen,  with the production of fibrinogen degradation products (FDP)  that inhibit thrombin. 

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#Id: 5214

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Plasmin is formed from its inactive precursor, plasminogen, by the action of thrombin and tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA).

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#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Plasminogen is converted to active plasmin when t-PA hydrolyzes the bond between Arg 560 and Val 561. plasmin also activated by urokinase-type plasminogen activator (u-PA).

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#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

Vitamin K, is a necessary cofactor for the enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of glutamic acid residues to γ-carboxyglutamic acid residues