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What is the most important natural body anticoagulant?
The most important natural body anticoagulant is heparin. Heparin is usually administered by injection to prevent the blood from clotting.
What is the bodys natural anticoagulant?
Heparin is the body's natural anticoagulant.
Does human body produce heparin and if our own body produces natural anticoagulant why do we need anticoagulant when we perform apheresis or dialysis?
I can partly answer this question: Basophils, which are granular leukocytes, are a part of our bodies natural makeup, they produce heparin (an anticoagulant), histimines (an inflammatory substance), and serotonin (a vasoconstictor).
What cells release histamine How does the body respond to the release of histamine?
Much of the histamine in the body is produced by the granules in mast cells and basophils as part of a local immune response to the presence of invading bodies.
Why is histamine dangerous?
When histamine is produced in the body, it can be over-produced because we are taking too much of one thing or another that our body cannot use.
How does diet relate to anticoagulants?
Diet is a very important consideration because the amount of vitamin K in the body affects how anticoagulant drugs work.
What does the body produce when lymphocytes encounter an allergen?
histamine
Where histamine is found in human body?
Histamine is found in the granules of mast cells where it is bound with an acidic protein and heparin(positively charged) while histamine itself is negatively charged.
What is the hestamine?
histamine is a compound produced in the body which causes pain and sweeling
What substance produced by the body is counteracted by anthistamine drugs?
Histamine
What does coumadin do to your body?
Coumadin is an anticoagulant (blood thinner). It prevents clots from forming.
What is the main difference between histamine and serotonin?
They have completely different functions in the body; histamine stimulates certain kinds of immune responses, and serotonin is a neuro-transmitter.
