Heparin is an anticoagulant that prevents the blood clots. Heparin does not break down clots that have already formed (unlike tissue plasminogen activator) but allows fibrinolysis to work normally to break down clots.

Diapharma’s heparin kits are for the chromogenic determination of UF and LMW heparin in human plasma, and measure the ability of heparin to catalyze the inhibition of FXa by antithrombin. Read more…