...M. Paye; B.V. Nusgens; C.M. Lapière The effect of activated factor XIII (FXIIIa), the transglutaminase of blood coagulation, on some cellular functions was studied in skin and lung fibroblasts in vitro. FXIIIa repressed the overall protein synthesis and mainly collagen synthesis in a concentration...

...Tadatoshi Kuratsuji; Tadao Oikawa; Tetsuo Fukumoto; Shunichi Shimizu; Yukio Iwasaki; Yukiharu Tomita; Takashi Meguro; Kaneo Yamada The plasma factor XIII in a 5-year-old girl with antibiotic-associated pseudomembranous colitis decreased to 30%, although her bleeding time and other coagulation...

...Aleksander Zuch Certain properties of tissue transamidase isolated from a bovine spleen have been described. This enzyme, like factor XIII (FSF), after reaction with thrombin causes the transformation of soluble fibrin polymer into insoluble clot – desmofibrin. 30 03 1979 29 05 1979...

...Anton A. Vrij; Joop Rijken; Jan W.J. van Wersch; Reinhold W. Stockbrügger The aim of this prospective study was to examine the role of coagulation factor XIII (FXIII) in relation to disease activity in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and in giant cell arteritis. Plasma FXIII activity was studied...