Question

In 1998, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the nation's first commercial surgical glue to control bleeding during certain surgeries. Called Tisseel, it forms a flexible mesh over an oozing blood vessel to help stem bleeding within five minutes. This sealant is made from two blood proteins that naturally cause blood to clot when they react together. What are these two proteins?

Answer 1

Fibrinogen and Thrombin are the two blood proteins.

Step-by-step explanation:

The clot that is formed by FDA approved Tisseel is very similar to the blood clot formed in an organism's body. Tissels contain the two proteins fibrinogen and thrombin. These two proeteins are produced by our body for blood coagulation. Amixture of these proteins forms a clot.

Fibrinogen is a glycoprotein that is converted onto fibrin during the process of blood clotting. Thrombin is the protein that is involved in this conversion process.