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IT is well known that the prothrombin in plasma is easily susceptible to inactivation, but the nature of the factors responsible for this inactivation has not been clearly understood. M. Gerendas1 has stated that the inactivation of thrombin is due to two parallel and separate causes, namely, adsorption, and a fermentative inactivating process.
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Gerendas, M., Nature, 157, 837 (1946).
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CHAK, I., GIRI, K. Effect of Ultra-Filtration and Carbon Dioxide on the Prothrombin Activity of Plasma. Nature 159, 878–879 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159878a0
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