UBC: Silicates In Soil Aid In Blood Clotting

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Silicates from soil aid in triggering blood clotting, reveal researchers

A new study has revealed that the presence of soil in wounds helps to activate a blood protein known as coagulation Factor XII, leading to clotting.

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New research has for the first time shown that soil silicates – the most abundant material on the Earth’s crust – play a key role in blood clotting. According to the scientists, these compounds could be used in therapeutics to aid blood clotting.

The study was conducted at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. “Soil is not simply our matrix for growing food and for building materials. Here we discovered that soil can actually help control bleeding after injury by triggering clotting,” said the study’s senior author Christian Kastrup, associate professor in the UBC’s faculty of medicine’s department of biochemistry and molecular biology....

 

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