• Question: How does the fibrin knows where to go to react to the hemorrhage?

    Asked by PMussons to Steph, Carmen on 20 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Stephanie Dyson

      Stephanie Dyson answered on 20 Mar 2015:

      The fibrin isn’t actually a moving thing. It is produced by cells called platelet cells that sense when they are in contact with air and then they move into where the wound is and then start producing fibrin to form a net that catches the blood cells.

      Steph

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