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Blood Clot

A blood clot, or thrombus, is a gel-like mass formed when blood components coagulate to stop bleeding and seal an injured blood vessel. Clot formation, or hemostasis, begins when platelets adhere and aggregate at the site of injury to form a plug, followed by activation of the coagulation cascade, a series of clotti…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 7 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 30× across the literature 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

A blood clot, or thrombus, is a gel-like mass formed when blood components coagulate to stop bleeding and seal an injured blood vessel. Clot formation, or hemostasis, begins when platelets adhere and aggregate at the site of injury to form a plug, followed by activation of the coagulation cascade, a series of clotting factors that culminates in the conversion of fibrinogen into fibrin, a mesh that stabilizes the platelet plug. While clotting is essential for wound healing and preventing excessive blood loss, clots that form inappropriately inside intact vessels can obstruct blood flow and cause serious conditions such as deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, heart attack, and stroke. The balance between clot formation and breakdown is tightly regulated, and disturbances in either direction lead to thrombosis or bleeding. Within the study of thrombosis and its treatments, research relevant to this field includes work on inherited bleeding disorders arising from genetic mutations in blood coagulation factors and regulatory proteins, which illuminates how defects in the clotting machinery disrupt normal hemostasis. This page reflects the scope of thrombosis research in examining clot formation, its complications, and its management, and gathers peer-reviewed, open-access material relevant to blood clots and the coagulation system.

Research published in this journal

7 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2019

Chondroplasty Efficacy of Bone Matrix

N.A. KiryanovCorresponding author
Izhevsk State Medical Academy, Izhevsk, Russia
Exact topic International Journal of Human Anatomy doi:10.14302/issn.2577-2279.ijha-19-3110

How this research is being cited

The 7 articles above have been cited 30 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Thrombosis and treatments.

Journal editorial board
Hsueh-Wen Chang · Taiwan Ioanna Koniari · Greece

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