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Effects Of High And Low Dose Warfarin Sodium On Implanted Spontaneous Cγéâh, Joan-Marie Deweese-Mays
Effects Of High And Low Dose Warfarin Sodium On Implanted Spontaneous Cγéâh, Joan-Marie Deweese-Mays
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
Continuing the study of the relationships between fibrin investment of the tumor, vascularity, and tumor growth, we decided to investigate the relationship of warfarin sodium anticoagulation with tumor growth and vascularization. It was reasoned that if the previously observed altered tumor growth was due the heparin’s anticoagulant effect rather than a direct effect upon the tumor, another anticoagulant with a different mechanism of action would have the same tumor growth reducing capabilities. Warfarin sodium produces reduced fibrin polymer formation by a mechanism entirely different from that of heparin. Heparins’ immediate anticoagulant activity results from a blockade of thrombin’s activity results …