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Autocatalysis and Blood Coagulation

Nature volume 144, page 76 (1939)Cite this article

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THE autocatalytic behaviour of blood coagulation is thought, by several authors, to be due to the autocatalytic formation of thrombin from its precursor prothrombin1. So far, thrombin seems similar to the enzymes studied by Northrop and co-workers2.

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ASTRUP, T. Autocatalysis and Blood Coagulation. Nature 144, 76 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144076a0

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