scholarly journals Efficacy of Monitoring Platelet Function by an Automated PL-12 Analyzer During the Treatment of Acute Cerebral Infarction With Antiplatelet Medicine

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 107602962110011
Author(s):  
Cen Yue ◽  
Zhiwei Lin ◽  
Congxia Lu ◽  
Hanshui Chen

Numerous methods can be used to investigate the function of platelets; however, technical issues limit tends to limit the applicability of such methods in the clinic. Methods: All participants were administered with oral aspirin (100 mg/d) for 7 days. Blood samples were then collected and platelet function evaluated by an automated PL-12 analyzer, TEG, and the platelet count drop method. We found that platelet counts determined by the traditional platelet drop method were significantly lower in the PL-12 sensitive group and significantly higher in the PL-12 insensitive group (P < 0.05). Furthermore, MAR measured by PL-12 was positively correlated with the MA values determined by TEG and the platelet drop method (r = 0.322, r = 0.036, respectively, P < 0.05), More importantly, the PL-12 analyzer showed the largest AUC (0.748) with a sensitivity of 87.4% and a specificity of 57.4%, indicating PL-12 analyzer using in platelet aggregation evaluation of ACI patients more credibly and accuracy. Additionally, genetic analysis showed that the polymorphic of A-allele in the PEAR1 (rs12041331) gene was significantly increased in the PL-12 sensitive group rather than in the PL-12 insensitive group (P < 0.05), suggesting the predictive value of PL-12 analyzer for the prognosis of ACI patients was superior to the other methods tested herein. Our analyses demonstrate that PL-12 analysis offer a new superior technology for monitoring antiplatelet drug efficacy and for clinical prognosis of ACI patients, which has the advantages of simplicity, speed, and automation in platelet aggregation measurement.

1995 ◽  
Vol 74 (05) ◽  
pp. 1316-1322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Ann McLane ◽  
Jagadeesh Gabbeta ◽  
A Koneti Rao ◽  
Lucia Beviglia ◽  
Robert A Lazarus ◽  
...  

SummaryNaturally-occurring fibrinogen receptor antagonists and platelet aggregation inhibitors that are found in snake venom (disintegrins) and leeches share many common features, including an RGD sequence, high cysteine content, and low molecular weight. There are, however, significant selectivity and potency differences. We compared the effect of three proteins on platelet function: albolabrin, a 7.5 kDa disintegrin, eristostatin, a 5.4 kDa disintegrin in which part of the disintegrin domain is deleted, and decorsin, a 4.5 kDa non-disintegrin derived from the leech Macrobdella decora, which has very little sequence similarity with either disintegrin. Decorsin was about two times less potent than albolabrin and six times less potent than eristostatin in inhibiting ADP- induced human platelet aggregation. It had a different pattern of interaction with glycoprotein IIb/IIIa as compared to the two disintegrins. Decorsin bound with a low affinity to resting platelets (409 nM) and to ADP-activated platelets (270 nM), and with high affinity to thrombin- activated platelets (74 nM). At concentrations up to 685 nM, it did not cause expression of a ligand-induced binding site epitope on the (β3 subunit of the GPIIb/IIIa complex. It did not significantly inhibit isolated GPIIb/IIIa binding to immobilized von Willebrand Factor. At low doses (1.5-3.0 μg/mouse), decorsin protected mice against death from pulmonary thromboembolism, showing an effect similar to eristostatin. This suggested that decorsin is a much more potent inhibitor of platelet aggregation in vivo than in vitro, and it may have potential as an antiplatelet drug.


1991 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seppo Juvela ◽  
Marrku Kaste

✓ Serial blood samples were obtained from 80 patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) to study adenosine diphosphate-induced platelet aggregation and associated thromboxane B2 release. The goal of the investigation was to detect whether reduced platelet function is involved in rebleeds. Seventeen patients (21%) suffered a rebleed, six of those experiencing their first rebleed within 24 hours after SAH. Therefore, most platelet function studies were performed after rebleeds. Thromboxane release was lower in patients with rebleeds than in the others, both before and after rebleeding, although statistical significance was reached only in samples collected after rebleeds. Patients rebleeding within 24 hours after SAH had lower platelet aggregability (p = 0.037) than patients without a rebleed in the samples taken within 3 days after SAH. The results suggest that reduced platelet aggregability and thromboxane release are involved in rebleeds following primary SAH.


Blood ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 108 (11) ◽  
pp. 1099-1099 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miho Ushida ◽  
Yumiko Matsubara ◽  
Shinichi Takahashi ◽  
Hiroaki Ishihara ◽  
Toshiro Shibano ◽  
...  

Abstract [Background] Aspirin (ASA) is widely used as an antiplatelet drug, and a large number of clinical trials with ASA demonstrated significant efficacies for prevention and treatment of athrothrombosis. Recently, accumulating evidences indicated that there are inter-individual variations in the platelet response to ASA. The subpopulation, called ASA resistance, has the inability of response to ASA on ex vivo or in vitro platelet function tests and the poor clinical outcomes, although the mechanism underlying the variability is largely unknown. To date, genetic factors were showed to have an impact on platelet reactivity to ASA, and the inter-individual variations in platelet response to ASA was also reported to be associated with platelet sensitivity to collagen. In this study, the association between collagen-induced platelet aggregation (CIPA) and genetic polymorphisms of collagen receptors, glycoprotein (GP) Ia and GPVI, was analyzed using platelets treated by ASA (ASA +/−). We also investigated the effect of these polymorphisms on platelet thromboxane (TXB2) levels, closely related to the final stages of the arachidonate pathway inhibited by ASA. [Methods] We recruited genetically unrelated Japanese males (n=172) at their regular checkups. The mean age was 46.7±5.1 years. The subjects had no apparent hematologic or vascular disease and were not taking any medications that affect platelet function. Written informed consent was obtained from all study subjects. Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) sample was incubated with ASA [final concentration (fc) 10μM] or vehicle for 30 min at 24 degree Centigrade, and CIPA (fc 2μg/ml) test was performed on each PRP sample. Subsequently, platelet TXB2 levels were measured in the supernatant after centrifugation of each sample of CIPA test. Genotypes of the 807TC, Glu534Lys, Asn927Ser polymorphisms of GPIa and the Ser219Pro, Lys237Glu, Thr249Ala, Gln317Leu, His322Asn polymorphisms of GPVI were determined using the single-nucleotide primer extension-based method. [Results] To examine the sensitivity of platelets to ASA in vitro, we analyzed CIPA and platelet TXB2 levels in ASA(+/−). The maximum platelet aggregation and TXB2 levels in ASA(+) were significantly lower than those in ASA(−) (paired t-test, p&lt;0.0001 and p&lt;0.0001, respectively). Next, we investigated the association between the collagen receptor polymorphisms and the maximum platelet aggregation in ASA (+/−). For ASA(−), all genotypes of GPIa and GPVI were not associated with the maximum platelet aggregation. For ASA(+), subjects with 807TT/TC of GPIa had higher aggregation compared to those with 807CC(P=0.0135) whereas no association was observed between other polymorphisms and the maximum platelet aggregation. Moreover, repeated measures ANOVA showed that the difference in this inhibitory effect of ASA was significant between the 807TT/TC and 807CC genotypes (p=0.0253); the 807CC genotype has higher inhibitory effect of ASA. There was no association between platelet TXB2 levels and the GPIa and GPVI polymorphisms both in ASA(+) and ASA(−). [Conclusion] The 807CC genotype of GPIa polymorphism is associated with higher sensitivity to ASA in CIPA.


2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (44) ◽  
pp. 6815-6827 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qian Xiang ◽  
Shuang Zhou ◽  
Joshua P. Lewis ◽  
Alan R. Shuldiner ◽  
Guanhua Ren ◽  
...  

2015 ◽  
Vol 113 (01) ◽  
pp. 97-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harald Haidl ◽  
Bettina Leschnik ◽  
Hans-Joerg Leis ◽  
Akos Heinemann ◽  
Wolfgang Muntean ◽  
...  

SummaryNeonatal platelets support primary haemostasis and thrombin generation as well as adult platelets, despite observable hypoaggregability in vitro. High prostaglandin E2 levels at accouchement could account for inhibited platelet function via the EP4 receptor. We set out to determine prostaglandin E2 plasma levels in cord blood of healthy neonates and evaluate the impact of prostaglandin E2 on platelet function in adult and cord blood samples. Prostaglandin E2 plasma levels were measured in cord blood and venous adult blood using GC-MS. Impact of prostaglandin E2 on platelet aggregation was measured by spiking cord blood and adult samples. Contributions of EP3 and EP4 receptors were evaluated using respective antagonists. Intracellular cAMP concentrations were measured using a commercial ELISA-kit. Prosta-glandin E2 plasma levels were substantially higher in cord blood than in adult samples. Spiking with prostaglandin E2 resulted in a slight but consistent reduction of platelet aggregation in adult blood, but response to PGE2 was blunted in cord blood samples. Aggregation response of spiked adult samples was still higher than with non-spiked cord blood samples. Blockage of EP4 receptors resulted in improved platelet aggregation in adult platelets upon prostaglandin E2 spiking, while aggregation in cord blood samples remained unaltered. Intracellular cAMP concentrations after preincubation with prostaglandin E2 were only increased in adult samples. In conclusion, very high prosta -glandin E2 concentrations in cord blood affect platelet function. This effect may partially explain neonatal platelet hypoaggregability. Peak levels of prostaglandin E2 can potentially protect against birth stressinduced platelet activation.


1988 ◽  
Vol 60 (01) ◽  
pp. 083-087 ◽  
Author(s):  
M P Gordge ◽  
R W Faint ◽  
P B Rylance ◽  
G H Neild

SummaryBleeding time and platelet function tests were performed on 31 patients with progressive chronic renal failure (CRF) due to non-immunological (urological) causes, and compared with 22 healthy controls. Patients were classified as mild (plasma creatinine <300 μmol/l), moderate (300-600 μmol/l) or severe renal failure (>600 μmol/l). Bleeding time was rarely prolonged in mild and moderate CRF and mean bleeding time significantly elevated only in severe CRF (p <0.005). Haematocrit was the only index which correlated with bleeding time (r = -0.40). Platelet counts, collagen stimulated thromboxane generation, and platelet aggregation responses to ADP, collagen and ristocetin were all either normal or increased in all three CRF groups, but thromboxane production in clotting blood was reduced. Plasma fibrinogen, C reactive protein and von Willebrand factor (vWF) were elevated in proportion to CRF. We found no evidence that defects in platelet aggregation or platelet interaction with vWF prolong the bleeding time in patients with progressive CRF.


1994 ◽  
Vol 72 (02) ◽  
pp. 244-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aura S Kamiguti ◽  
Joseph R Slupsky ◽  
Mirko Zuzel ◽  
Charles R M Hay

SummaryHaemorrhagic metalloproteinases from Bothrops jararaca and other venoms degrade vessel-wall and plasma proteins involved in platelet plug and fibrin clot formation. These enzymes also cause proteolytic digestion of fibrinogen which has been suggested to cause defective platelet function. Fibrinogen degradation by jararhagin, a metalloproteinase from B. jararaca, and the effect of jararhagin fibrinogenolysis on both platelet aggregation and fibrin clot formation were investigated. Jararhagin was found to cleave human fibrinogen in the C-terminal region of the Aα-chain giving rise to a 285-290 kDa fibrinogen molecule lacking the Aα-chain RGD 572-574 platelet-binding site. Platelet binding and aggregation of ADP-activated platelets is unaffected by this modification. This indicates that the lost site is not essential for platelet aggregation, and that the remaining platelet binding sites located in the N-terminal portion of Aα chains (RGD 95-97) and the C-terminal of γ chains (dodecapeptide 400-411) are unaffected by jararhagin-digestion of fibrinogen. Fibrin clot formation with thrombin of this remnant fibrinogen molecule was defective, with poor polymerization of fibrin monomers but normal release of FPA. The abnormal polymerization could be explained by the loss of one of the two complementary polymerization sites required for side-by-side association of fibrin protofibrils. Jararhagin-induced inhibition of platelet function, an important cause of haemorrhage in envenomed patients, is not caused by proteolysis of fibrinogen, as had been thought, and the mechanism remains to be elucidated.


1976 ◽  
Vol 36 (01) ◽  
pp. 221-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles A. Schiffer ◽  
Caroline L. Whitaker ◽  
Morton Schmukler ◽  
Joseph Aisner ◽  
Steven L. Hilbert

SummaryAlthough dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) has been used extensively as a cryopreservative for platelets there are few studies dealing with the effect of DMSO on platelet function. Using techniques similar to those employed in platelet cryopreservation platelets were incubated with final concentrations of 2-10% DMSO at 25° C. After exposure to 5 and 10% DMSO platelets remained discoid and electron micrographs revealed no structural abnormalities. There was no significant change in platelet count. In terms of injury to platelet membranes, there was no increased availability of platelet factor-3 or leakage of nucleotides, 5 hydroxytryptamine (5HT) or glycosidases with final DMSO concentrations of 2.5, 5 and 10% DMSO. Thrombin stimulated nucleotide and 5HT release was reduced by 10% DMSO. Impairment of thrombin induced glycosidase release was noted at lower DMSO concentrations and was dose related. Similarly, aggregation to ADP was progressively impaired at DMSO concentrations from 1-5% and was dose related. After the platelets exposed to DMSO were washed, however, aggregation and release returned to control values. Platelet aggregation by epinephrine was also inhibited by DMSO and this could not be corrected by washing the platelets. DMSO-plasma solutions are hypertonic but only minimal increases in platelet volume (at 10% DMSO) could be detected. Shrinkage of platelets was seen with hypertonic solutions of sodium chloride or sucrose suggesting that the rapid transmembrane passage of DMSO prevented significant shifts of water. These studies demonstrate that there are minimal irreversible alterations in in vitro platelet function after short-term exposure to DMSO.


1968 ◽  
Vol 19 (03/04) ◽  
pp. 438-450
Author(s):  
I. E. T Gan ◽  
B. G Firkin

Summary1. A correlation between platelet aggregation and the plasma enzyme(s) ability to degrade Adenosine Diphosphate (ADP) has been confirmed.2. This plasma activity has been shown to be reduced in 6 patients with uraemia in whom platelet aggregation was demonstrably impaired but not in two whose platelet function was normal. The incorporation of 14C labelled ADP-8-14C was also only reduced in uraemic patients with abnormal platelet aggregation.3. These findings are discussed with particular reference to possible implication in mechanism involved in ADP aggregation of platelets.


1980 ◽  
Vol 44 (03) ◽  
pp. 143-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Dalsgaard-Nielsen ◽  
J Gormsen

SummaryHuman platelets in platelet rich plasma (PRP) incubated at 37° C with 0.3–2% halothane for 5–10 min lost the ability to aggregate with ADP, epinephrine and collagen.At the same time uptake and release of 14C-serotonin was inhibited. When halothane supply was removed, platelet functions rapidly returned to normal. However, after high concentrations of halothane, the inhibition of platelet aggregation was irreversible or only partially reversible.The results suggest that halothane anaesthesia produces a transient impairment of platelet function.


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