Coagulant

... blood? Hook tightly and will just loose after get full? If you remove it before it gets full, you will get bleeding because it contains blood anti-coagulant? Leech (Hirudinae)? 8) Kill me if I am wrong :roll: :oops: :oops:

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... adhere to and are activated by collagen outside the blood vessel and the skin. The activated platelets then release granules that contain pro-coagulant proteins furthering clotting. [/quote] The platelets must be activated to clot, the calcium is part of the clotting pathway but does not initiate

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