Red blood cell

Mechanism of blood clotting

Wound in skin

Forms a temporary plug

in leaking Platelet gather  Sticky
vessel

Produce
Trombokinase

Need
Vitamin D

Fibrinogen Trombokinase
Thrombin Prothrombin
Ion Calcium
Fibrin

Later
Forms the threads
of the clot Harden (scab)
 Wound in skin

Whenever an injury occurs a chain reaction is set

off.
Wound in skin

Platelet

Platelets gather at a site of the injury and

become sticky
Wound in skin

Forming a temporary plug in the leaking

vessel
 Vitamin K

Trombokinase
Thrombin Prothrombin
Ion Calcium

Prothrombin (non-active enzyme) need ion

calcium to convert into thrombin.
 Thread of clot

Thrombin converts soluble fibrinogen

(plasma protein formed by the liver)
into insoluble fibrin. Fibrin forms the
threads of the clot
A mesh-like network of
fibrin traps red blood
cells together, forming
the blood clot, which
later hardens into a
scab.