Describe how platelets interact to form a blood clot, Biology

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Describe briefly how platelets, fibrin and red cells interact to form a blood clot.

 

Platelets release a substance which, indirectly, causes fibrinogen to be changed to fibrin. The fibrin forms a network which traps red cells to form a clot.

 


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