von Willebrand factor

Table of Contents

Introduction References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics

Read Next

Molecular structure of a petide - sequence of amino acids

What Is the Difference Between a Peptide and a Protein?

Overhead view of high protein foods: chicken, meat, spinach, eggs, nuts, bean, cheese. (nutrition, health, food, diet)

Why Is Eating Protein Important?

Discover

Two puppies and a kitten, puppy playfully biting kitten's head

Why Are the Babies of Mammals Cute?

Baseball laying in the grass. Homepage blog 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society, sports and games athletics

10 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time

Candles Burning On Table In Church

What Is the Most Widely Practiced Religion in the World?

B-52G with cruise missiles, USAF, short range attack missiles SRAMs; guided missile

11 of the World’s Most Famous Warplanes

Bog body. Head of Tollund Man. Died at about age 30-40, Dated to about 280 BCE early Iron Age. Found Bjaeldskovdal bog Denmark in 1950 near Elling Woman. Most well preserved bog body to date. Human remains mummified in natural peat bogs. mummy, embalm

9 Noteworthy Bog Bodies (And What They Tell Us)

Close up of praying mantis walking on stone ground against a blurred background in Japan

6 Animals That Eat Their Mates

Figure 13: A Maxim machine gun, belt-fed and water-cooled, operated by German infantrymen, World War I.

7 Deadliest Weapons in History

von Willebrand factor: Facts & Related Content

Written and fact-checked by The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Also Known As	VWF

Topics

von Willebrand disease antihemophilic globulin blood-clotting protein fibrin