| Services provided by the Comparative Coagulation
Section include: |
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Coagulation and fibrinolysis testing |
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Coagulation screening tests, specific coagulant activity assays,
fibrinolysis activators, inhibitors, and endproducts, and quantitative
and functional fibrinogen determination. |
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Coagulation inhibitor studies |
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Physiologic coagulation inhibitors, pharmacologic inhibitors,
and assays to detect pathologic factor inhibitors, Bethesda
unit assay, and lupus anticoagulants. |
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Platelet function studies |
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Platelet aggregation and secretion response to collagen, ADP,
and other agonists, platelet glycoprotein and integrin analyses,
platelet procoagulant activity. |
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Von Willebrand factor assays |
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Quantitative, functional, and qualitative von Willebrand factor
assays including von Willebrand factor antigen (ELISA), collagen
binding, ristocetin cofactor activity, and protein electrophoresis
with Western blotting. |
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Canine and feline blood typing |
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For more information and a list of individual tests provided
by the Coagulation Section, please refer to the Comparative
Coagulation web site. |
