Cold-Adapted Animals. I. Changes in Blood Clotting and Electrophoretic Properties of Rabbit Plasma.

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Abstract
Rabbits maintained for 2 months at 4[degree]C developed increases in platelet and erythrocyte counts, hematocrit ratio, plasma protein concentration, B -globulins and fibrinogen, and whole blood and plasma clotting times. Decreases occurred in serum albumin concentration and prothrombin time. The retardation of clotting in spite of a decrease in prothrombin time may be due to an increase in resistance of platelets or to some chemical alteration of thromboplastin.

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