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Anticoagulant Drugs Overview Practice Quiz
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Which best describes how heparin (UFH/LMWH/fondaparinux) exerts its anticoagulant effect?
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Correct answer: Boosts activity so (and with UFH) are inactivated
Heparin does not directly inhibit clotting enzymes. It presents a pentasaccharide sequence that binds and accelerates $ATIII$, which then inactivates $Xa$ and (when bridged by long UFH chains) $IIa$ (thrombin).
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