Relationships between euglobulin clot lysis time and the plasma levels of tissue plasminogen activator and plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 |
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Authors: | T Urano K Sakakibara A Rydzewski S Urano Y Takada A Takada |
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Institution: | Department of Physiology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Shizuoka, Japan. |
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Abstract: | The relationships between tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), its fast acting inhibitor (PAI-1) and euglobulin clot lysis time (ELT) were investigated with healthy volunteers' plasma. Turbidimetric clot lysis assay by the microtiter plate reader was utilized for ELT with a slight modification. Both tPA and PAI-1 showed the significant correlation with ELT. tPA had a significantly positive, not negative, correlation with ELT (R = 0.387, p less than 0.001). Higher correlation coefficients (R = 0.580, p less than 0.001 and R = 0.599, p less than 0.001) were obtained between ELT and total PAI-1 or free PAI-1 than tPA or tPA-PAI-1 complex (R = 0.427, p less than 0.001). The positive correlation was also obtained between tPA and PAI-1. These data suggest that PAI-1 is a highly important factor for ELT, especially, the amounts of free PAI-1 being the key factor to determine the ELT, which can represent the potential activity of the fibrinolytic system. |
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