Dicumarol is a competitive inhibitor of vitamin K epoxide reductase.
Or process of elimination using knowledge of increase PTT time: something wrong with 12, 11, 9, 8.
for completion sake; Dicumarol is an epoxide-reductase inhibitor like warfarin and just like when you use warfarin the first clotting factor to go is seven since it has the shortest half-life. Factor seven is part of the extrinsic pathway and therefore will have a prolong your PT.
submitted by โpeteandplop(42)
The above is correct in terms of MoA, however I believe the stem states it is PT (prothrombin) prolongation, not PTT (Partial Thromboplastin). I did not have any idea what dicumarol was.. but here was my logic: