20. What are clotting factors?

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Clotting factors are
(enzymes, coenzymes, reagents)
for the clotting to
happen. Besides triggering factors
and already described (tissue
platelet factors, thromplastinogen,
, fibrinogen, calciumions),
other participate in the
clotting process as
factors, like factor , whose
deficiency causes A, or the
IX, whose deficiency
hemophilia B.