“…Having achieved significant success in the area of plasminogen, antithrombin III, heparin and α 2antiplasmin assays, research biochemists and coagulationists turned their attention to individual zymogens and have now automatable assays for prekallikrein, 9 Factor VIII, 27 Factor V, 16,21 Factor VII, 4 Factor X, 2 and prothrombin. 5 In addition, progress has been made toward automatable global chromogenic substrate assays to replace or supple ment the prothrombin time 3 and activated partial thromboplastin time, 3 and a new automatable clotting method has been reported.…”