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Coagulation, which stops the loss of blood at vascular injury sites, is essential for the process of stopping bleeding, or hemostasis, but it can be dangerous in the case of blood clotting complications like deep vein thrombosis. Warfarin, an anticoagulant, inhibits the function of the VKOR enzyme...
Beckwith’s team worked off of discoveries made in Rapoport’s lab, including the structure and function of the VKOR protein, its formation of disulfide bridges, and its method of inhibiting the VKOR enzyme...
...movies that you were working against? A little bit of both. For me, movies like Platoon and Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List and Apocalypse Now, were not just cinematic experiences but were informative in terms of creating a sense of what those wars were like. They served that function in the culture. I was aiming for something along those lines with The Hurt Locker - to make a movie that hopefully, 20 years later, somebody would watch and say, Oh, I didn't know the war was like that...
...during Math 1b already, those ladies lucky(?) enough to see a side of Vitti not usually aired in the classroom now have something else to distract them. Concentration during office hours with this TF will probably be even more difficult for any girl who has seen his well-defined function...
...provide stimulus investment for businesses and infrastructure have fallen afoul of feminists. The posters show Marianne - the Phrygian-bonneted symbol of the French Republic - barefoot, swathed in pure white and very pregnant. That, critics say, sends the chauvinist message of women as chaste, stay-at-home types whose sole function in life is to provide their husbands with children needed for labor and warring. Some detractors say the images also exploit women for political purposes. "The hand of the state shouldn't be in my uterus," wrote a blogger on the feminist website Le Féminin l'Emporte...