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06/10/14 3:15 PM

#179080 RE: iwfal #179074

ISIS—Feedback loops result in very non-linear behavior.

That’s painting with too broad a brush, IMO. The coagulation cascade has multiple feedback loops, as you can see by the green lines in the diagram below:



If feedback loops ensured “very non-linear behavior,” then virtually all anticoagulants—including, notably, the FXa inhibitors—would exhibit such behavior.