English: The need to find new manners in which to combat cardiovascular disease and associated thrombotic complications, remains a high priority in industrialised countries. Even in third-world countries the implications ...

English: Chronic myelogenous leukaemia (CML) is a malignant clonal disorder that results in the uncontrolled production of white blood cells. This disease is a result of a reciprocal translocation of the long arms of ...

English: In the foregoing project, an investigation was made into the relative KIR gene frequencies of three South African cohorts. Playing an important part in innate immunity, KIR fill a vital gap between viral onsets ...

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English: The role of factor XI in hemostasis can be seen as a combination of a procoagulant action (the formation of fibrin) and an antifibrinolytic action (the protection of fibrin). High levels of factor XI lead to a ...

English: Background: Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is a major cause of mortality and morbidity world-wide, and is responsible for roughly 2.5 million hospital admissions world-wide annually. ACS is commonly associated ...

English: The human alpha fibrinogen (FGA) short tandem repeat locus is found in the long arm of chromosome 4. It is located in the third intron of the alpha fibrinogen gene. This complex highly polymorphic tetranucleotide ...

English: CML is a cancer of the white blood cells and it effects on average one individual in every 100,000. Since it was first described in 1845 by John Hughes Bennett and the subsequent discovery of the Philadelphia ...

English: Von Willebrand disease (VWD) is a common bleeding disorder caused by either quantitative (type1 and 3) or qualitative (type 2) defects of von Willebrand factor (VWF). The diagnosis of VWD usually requires a panel ...