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Dictionary » F » Factor v deficiency Factor v deficiencyFactor v deficiency An inherited disorder that results in abnormal blood clotting due to the deficiency of factor v, one of 20 plasma proteins responsible for the maintenance of normal blood clotting. symptoms include excessive bleeding, bleeding gums, nosebleeds, easy bruising, excessive menstrual bleeding and bleeding into muscle tissue (haematoma) or a joint space (haemarthrosis). treatment includes the infusion of fresh frozen plasma to restore deficient factor v. ![]()
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Results from our forumRe: B12 absorption/intrinsic factor... is a pretty straightforward thing, you dont trust wikipedia? intrinsic factor has to bind to b12 for it to be endocytosed. If you rephrase your question ask what is B12 deficiency like then I can help you there because that sounds more like the questions ...
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Why do women live longer than men?... jobs which wear the body out more quickly. This also due to a deeper factor involving the blood. You see, women tend to have an iron deficiency because of menstrulation. The iron in our blood equals age for our cells, and because ...
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Unsolved medical issue... but I still get a nose bleed now and then. As far as I know, vitamin K deficiency is rare with people that have normal diets, but there is probably ... their numbers and causing bleeding. The disease may have a genetic risk factor, but I am not entirely sure about this. There are also several other ...
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Re: Cytokine - Receptor concepts... cytokines that act in concern with CD40 ( a type of tumor necrosis factor) to stimulate B cell proliferation and production of antibodies of ... Receptors has remarkable characteristics and are partly because of deficiency of cytokine receptors has now been directly linked to certain ...
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Require advice regarding Myelin/VitB12 :D... B12 is required by the nervous system, the most common symptom from its deficiency is pernicious anemia, which is an autoimmune state where cells producing the so-called instrinsic factor are destroyed and thus the absorption of the vitamin stops. This in turn also ...
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