Studies of the "Thrombin" Effect of Fresh Serum.

Abstract
The residual coagulating power of fresh serum, after complete coagulation of whole blood has taken place, is not related to thrombin but to a "prothrombin-converting factor." This factor persists in sera of patients receiving dicumarol for significantly longer periods than sera of normal individuals. When "prothrombin-converting factor" was used to assay prothrombin in plasma, results comparable to the one-stage method of Quick were obtained.
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