anticoagulants
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Consider anticoagulants, medications that prevent blood from clotting.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
Which is why slower-acting substances, mainly anticoagulants - drugs that stop blood forming into clots - are used.
From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025
However, contrary to previous assumptions, the researchers discovered that chitosan also directly stimulates blood clotting by activating the TLR-2 clotting pathway, making it a viable mechanism for increasing blood clotting even in patients on anticoagulants.
From Science Daily • Jan. 22, 2024
A: We know that mosquito saliva has some factors in it, anticoagulants and things like that, that may or may not improve the infectivity.
From Science Magazine • Oct. 26, 2023
Most city rats have developed immunity to first-generation anticoagulants, rendering many poisons useless.
From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2023
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