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Aslan G, Polat V, Bozcali E, Opan S, Çetin N, Ural D. Evaluation of serum sST2 and sCD40L values in patients with microvascular angina. Microvasc Res 2018; 122:85-93. [PMID: 30502363 DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2018.11.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2018] [Revised: 11/14/2018] [Accepted: 11/27/2018] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Coronary microvascular dysfunction plays a major role in the pathogenesis of microvascular angina (MVA). Along with endothelial dysfunction, microvascular atherosclerosis and inflammation seem to contribute to the development of coronary microvascular dysfunction. Serum soluble ST2 (sST2) and serum soluble CD40 ligand (sCD40L) are two biomarkers associated with inflammation and atherosclerosis. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of these biomarkers in the pathogenesis of MVA and determine their possible association with coronary microvascular dysfunction. METHODS A total of 152 patients were included in the study. Ninety-one patients with MVA {median age 56 years (40-79), of which 55 are women} and sixty-one controls {median age 52 (38-76), of which 29 are women} were included in the study. Serum concentration of sST2 and sCD40L were measured with a commercially available ELISA kit. RESULTS Serum sST2 (median 13.6 ng/ml; interquartile range (IQR), 3.5-63.8 ng/ml vs median 10.6 ng/ml; IQR, 2.9-34.2 ng/ml, p < 0.0005) and sCD40L (median 5.3 ng/ml; IQR, 0.5-20.6 ng/ml vs median 2.2 ng/ml; IQR, 0.7-10.8 ng/ml, p < 0.0005) were significantly higher in patients with MVA compared to controls. Analysis of the associations between these biomarkers and potential contributors of MVA revealed that serum sST2 showed a positive correlation with LDL-cholesterol (r = 0.19, p = 0.016) and serum sCD40L concentrations correlated positively with hs-CRP (r = 0.22, p = 0.005). In logistic regression analysis, sCD40L and hs-CRP but not sST2 were found to be significantly associated with MVA. CONCLUSION Higher serum concentrations of sST2 and sCD40L in MVA patients may be associated with inflammatory activation and coronary microvascular dysfunction. Larger studies are required for understanding their role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory and possibly fibrotic process in MVA patients.
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- Gamze Aslan
- Department of Cardiology, Koc University School of Medicine and Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
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- Department of Cardiology, Bakirkoy Dr. Sadi Konuk Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Cardiology, Koc University School of Medicine and Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Cardiology, Bakirkoy Dr. Sadi Konuk Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Duzen Laboratory, Cemal Sahir Sok. No: 14, 34383 Mecidiyekoy, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Cardiology, Koc University School of Medicine and Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
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Kupchak BR, Kazman JB, Vingren JL, Levitt DE, Lee EC, Williamson KH, Armstrong LE, Deuster PA. Blood Hemostatic Changes During an Ultraendurance Road Cycling Event in a Hot Environment. Wilderness Environ Med 2017; 28:197-206. [DOI: 10.1016/j.wem.2017.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2016] [Revised: 05/03/2017] [Accepted: 05/05/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Platelets play an important, but often under-recognized role in cardiovascular disease. For example, the normal response of the platelet can be altered, either by increased pro-aggregatory stimuli or by diminished anti-aggregatory substances to produce conditions of increased platelet activation/aggregation and occur in active cardiovascular disease states both on a chronic (e.g. stable angina pectoris) and acute basis (e.g. acute myocardial infarction). In addition, platelet hyperaggregability is also associated with the risk factors for coronary artery disease (e.g. smoking, hypertension, and hypercholesterolaemia). Finally, the utility of an increasing range of anti-platelet therapies in the management of the above disease states further emphasizes the pivotal role platelets play in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the normal physiologic role of platelets in maintain homeostasis, the pathophysiologic processes that contribute to platelet dysfunction in cardiovascular disease and the associated role and benefits of anti-platelet therapies.
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- Scott Willoughby
- Cardiology Unit, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Cardiology Unit, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- The Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute and Evans Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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Dominguez-Rodriguez A, Abreu-Gonzalez P, Avanzas P, Gomez MA, Kaski JC. Elevated circulating soluble form of CD40 ligand in patients with cardiac syndrome X. Atherosclerosis 2010; 213:637-41. [PMID: 20980002 DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2010.09.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2010] [Revised: 09/16/2010] [Accepted: 09/27/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND The presence of effort induced angina, positive exercise stress test responses and angiographically normal coronary arteries defines cardiac syndrome X (CSX). Its pathogenesis, although mostly attributed to endothelial dysfunction and coronary microcirculation abnormalities, is incompletely understood. The soluble CD40 ligand (sCD40L) has multiple autocrine, paracrine and endocrine actions that may lead to endothelial dysfunction and atherothrombosis. We sought to investigate the relationship among sCD40L levels and ischemic burden in patients with CSX and whether sCD40L levels are increased in patients with CSX compared to control subjects. METHODS We assessed 30 prospectively enrolled patients with CSX and 28 apparently healthy subjects matched for coronary risk factors. All CSX patients and control subjects underwent myocardial perfusion scintigraphy. The summed difference score is taken to be an index of ischemic burden. This was classified as mildly, moderately and severely abnormal. White blood cells, sCD40L and C-reactive protein (CRP) concentrations were measured at peak exercise. RESULTS At peak exercise, sCD40L levels were significantly greater in CSX patients than in the control group (P=0.008). Similarly, white blood cell count and CRP levels were higher in patients with CSX than in normal controls (P=0.02). After multivariable adjustment, sCD40L (P=0.03) was the only independent predictor of severe ischemic burden in CSX patients. CONCLUSIONS The present study showed for the first time that sCD40L is associated with ischemic burden in patients with CSX. The potential role of this inflammatory molecule in the pathogenesis of CSX deserves investigation in future studies.
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Petidis K, Douma S, Doumas M, Basagiannis I, Vogiatzis K, Zamboulis C. The interaction of vasoactive substances during exercise modulates platelet aggregation in hypertension and coronary artery disease. BMC Cardiovasc Disord 2008; 8:11. [PMID: 18505546 PMCID: PMC2432046 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2261-8-11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2007] [Accepted: 05/27/2008] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Background Acute vigorous exercise, associated with increased release of plasma catecholamines, transiently increases the risk of primary cardiac arrest. We tested the effect of acute submaximal exercise on vasoactive substances and their combined result on platelet function. Methods Healthy volunteers, hypertensive patients and patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) performed a modified treadmill exercise test. We determined plasma catecholamines, thromboxane A2, prostacyclin, endothelin-1 and platelet aggregation induced by adenosine diphosphate (ADP) and collagen at rest and during exercise. Results Our results during exercise showed a) platelet activation (increased thromboxane B2, TXB2), b) increased prostacyclin release from endothelium and c) decreased platelet aggregation in all groups, significantly more in healthy volunteers than in patients with CAD (with hypertensives lying in between these two groups). Conclusion Despite the pronounced activation of Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS) and increased TXB2 levels during acute exercise platelet aggregation decreases, possibly to counterbalance the prothrombotic state. Since this effect seems to be mediated by the normal endothelium (through prostacyclin and nitric oxide), in conditions characterized by endothelial dysfunction (hypertension, CAD) reduced platelet aggregation is attenuated, thus posing such patients in increased risk for thrombotic complications.
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- Konstantinos Petidis
- 2nd Propedeutic Department of Internal Medicine, Hippokration Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Coppola A, Coppola L, dalla Mora L, Limongelli FM, Grassia A, Mastrolorenzo L, Gombos G, Lucivero G. Vigorous exercise acutely changes platelet and B-lymphocyte CD39 expression. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2005; 98:1414-9. [PMID: 15772061 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00315.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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CD39/ATP diphosphohydrolase is expressed on B lymphocytes, cytotoxic T lymphocytes, monocytes, platelets, and endothelial cells, and it has a critical role in the inhibition of platelet responsiveness. To determine whether strenuous exercise could acutely change expression of CD39 in platelets and lymphocytes, eight healthy sedentary men, 34 yr old (SD 7), and eight physically active men, 34 yr old (SD 6), performed graded upright cycle ergometry to volitional exhaustion. Blood samples collected both at baseline and after exercise test were employed to measure CD39 expression in platelets and lymphocytes. The percentage of circulating platelet-platelet aggregates, the “in vitro” ADP and collagen-induced platelet aggregation, and the expression of both platelet glycoprotein IIb-IIIa (PAC-1) and P-selectin (CD62) were also considered markers of platelet activation. After strenuous exercise, all subjects demonstrated significant platelet activation as judged by the increased percentage of platelet-platelet aggregates. The in vitro ADP-induced platelet aggregation and the expression of CD62P on ADP-stimulated platelets significantly increased in sedentary but not in active subjects. After exercise, all of the subjects showed a significant reduction of CD39 expression in platelet [sedentary: from 2.2 (SD 0.8) to 1.1% (SD 0.8), P = 0.008; active: from 0.6 (SD 0.2) to 0.35% (SD 0.1), P = 0.009] and an increase of CD39 expression in B lymphocytes [sedentary: from 47 (SD 13) to 60% (SD 11), P = 0.0039; active: from 46 (SD 11) to 59% (SD 11), P = 0.0038]. Taken together, these findings confirm the critical role of this ADPase in inhibition of platelet responsiveness, also suggesting a possible role of B lymphocytes in thromboregulation mechanism.
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- Antonino Coppola
- Divisione di Astanteria Medica e Geriatria, Policlinico Universitario, Piazza Miraglia 2, 80138 Napoli, Italy.
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INTRODUCTION The key role of platelets in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis prompted considerable interest on the effect of physical exercise on platelets. Due to probable menstrual cycle variations, only a limited number of investigations have studied the effect of exercise on platelets in women. The study was undertaken to determine the effect of acute submaximal exercise on platelet aggregation and thromboxane A(2) (TxA(2)) formation in females during their late follicular and midluteal phases. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twelve healthy, sedentary, female volunteers performed 15 min of cycling exercise at a workload that increased their heart rate to 75% of maximal in two phases of the menstrual cycle. The maximal rate of ADP and collagen-induced platelet aggregation was evaluated on citrated whole blood using the impedance technique. Thrombin-induced thromboxane A(2) formation was evaluated by the measurement of thromboxane B(2) (TxB(2)) level by enzyme-linked immunoassay. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION No significant difference was found between maximal rates of platelet aggregation measured in the different phases of menstrual cycle. Collagen-induced platelet aggregation and platelet count increased significantly after the exercise in both late follicular and midluteal phases (p<0.05). ADP-induced platelet aggregation did not change due to the exercise during the two phases of menstrual cycle. The thromboxane B(2) level measured in the midluteal phase was significantly higher than that measured in late follicular phase at rest. It was significantly increased after the exercise in late follicular phase while no significant difference was found between pre-exercise and postexercise levels in the midluteal phase. The differences in thromboxane A(2) formation were pointed out in the changes in platelet reactivity status. The inhibitory systems for platelets need further investigations. Our findings support the idea that menstrual variations do not have pronounced and acute effects on both platelet aggregation and response of platelets to acute exercise.
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- G Ersöz
- Department of Physiology, Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Sihhiye Ankara 06100, Turkey.
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of arm crank exercise on various platelet functions and prostacyclin in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). DESIGN Case-control study. SETTING Research project at a hospital-based exercise physiology laboratory. PARTICIPANTS Seven men (with lesions at levels T11, n = 1; T12, n = 2; L1, n = 2; L2, n = 2) and 3 women (T12, n = 1; L1, n = 2) in the SCI group had SCI for at least 6 weeks. Ten age- and gender-matched healthy people who had not engaged in any regular physical activity for at least 1 year were selected as the control group. INTERVENTION All subjects exercised strenuously by using an arm crank engometer. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Platelet adhesiveness on fibrinogen-coated surface and epinephrine-induced aggregation in vitro, plasma soluble P-selectin (sP-selectin), and urinary 6-keto-prostaglandin F(1alpha) (6-keto PGF(1alpha)) levels. RESULTS The SCI group had higher platelet adhesiveness and aggregability and plasma sP-selectin level, but lower urinary 6-keto PGF(1alpha) level than the control group. Platelet adhesiveness and aggregability were enhanced by strenuous arm exercise in all subjects, but only in the SCI group was sP-selectin level increased by exercise. Strenuous exercise raised the levels of 6-keto PGF(1alpha) in control group subjects, but not in subjects with SCI. CONCLUSIONS Individuals with SCI had more extensive basal and exercise-induced platelet activation and sP-selectin release than people without SCI. Moreover, strenuous arm exercise, which enhanced the release of prostacyclin in healthy subjects, failed to do so in those with SCI.
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- Jong-Shyan Wang
- Department of Physical Therapy, Chang Gung University, Kwei-Shan, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan, ROC.
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Andreotti F, Lanza GA, Sciahbasi A, Fischetti D, Sestito A, De Cristofaro R, Maseri A. Low-grade exercise enhances platelet aggregability in patients with obstructive coronary disease independently of myocardial ischemia. Am J Cardiol 2001; 87:16-20. [PMID: 11137827 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9149(00)01265-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Moderate and strenuous exercise is known to enhance platelet aggregability in patients with obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD), but the effect of low-grade exercise is not known. We assessed shear-induced platelet aggregability before and after mild exercise (less than or equal to stage III of the modified Bruce protocol) in 27 patients with documented CAD who were receiving aspirin and in 12 subjects without CAD (controls). Ex vivo platelet aggregability was assessed in flowing whole blood as the time to occlude a collagen and adenosine diphosphate-coated ring; shorter times indicated greater aggregability. Aggregability, plasma von Willebrand factor (vWF) antigen, platelet and white cell counts, and hematocrit were measured at baseline, immediately after exercise (peak), and at 30 and 180 minutes after exercise. Exercise of similar workloads induced myocardial ischemia in 14 patients (group 1), but not in the other 13 (group 2) nor in controls. Both patient groups showed a reduction in aggregation time at peak exercise compared with baseline (group 1: 84+/-17 seconds at peak vs 96+/-22 seconds at baseline; group 2: 84+/-20 seconds at peak vs 99+/-20 seconds at baseline; p <0.03 for both comparisons), with a return to baseline values within 180 minutes. No significant variation occurred in controls (89+/-18 seconds at peak vs 85+/-21 second at baseline). Changes in vWF antigen did not differ significantly among groups. Aggregation times did not correlate with hematocrit or platelet and white cell counts. Thus, even low-grade exercise transiently enhances whole blood platelet aggregability in patients with obstructive CAD, but not in controls. The effect is independent of myocardial ischemia, occurs despite aspirin, and is likely dependent on hemodynamic factors interacting with coronary obstructions or dysfunctional endothelium.
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- F Andreotti
- Istituto di Cardiologia and Centro Ricerche Fisiopatologia dell'Emostasi, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
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Hurlen M, Seljeflot I, Arnesen H. Increased platelet aggregability during exercise in patients with previous myocardial infarction. Lack of inhibition by aspirin. Thromb Res 2000; 99:487-94. [PMID: 10973679 DOI: 10.1016/s0049-3848(00)00277-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of acute exercise on platelet aggregability, blood coagulation, and fibrinolysis in patients with recent myocardial infarction, and to examine these effects in relation to two different antithrombotic regimens. Forty patients (mean age 60 years) were investigated 3 months after a myocardial infarction. They were randomized to antithrombotic treatment with either warfarin (INR 2.8-4.2) or aspirin 160 mg daily. They performed a standardized ergometer bicycle exercise test. Blood was drawn before and after the exercise. The platelet function tests included a platelet aggregate ratio (PAR), which, in the presence of aggregates, is<1. The coagulation products remained largely unchanged during the exercise, whereas the fibrinolytic activity and the catecholamine levels increased significantly. At baseline, PAR was lower in the warfarin group than in the aspirin group. During exercise, PAR was significantly reduced in both study groups (0.75 vs. 0.80), indicating increased platelet aggregability. Beta-thromboglobulin decreased in both groups. The increased platelet aggregability after exercise despite aspirin is probably due to activation by catecholamines. This implies that aspirin may have a limited antithrombotic effect during physical exercise and probably also in other situations with increased catecholamine levels.
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- M Hurlen
- Dept of Cardiology, Ullevaal University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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Formation of the blood clot is a slow but normal physiological process occurring as a result of the activation of blood coagulation pathways. Nature's guard against unwanted blood clots is the fibrinolytic enzyme system. In healthy people, there is a delicate dynamic balance between blood clot formation and blood clot dissolution. Available evidence suggests that exercise and physical training evoke multiple effects on blood hemostasis in normal healthy subjects and in patients. A single bout of exercise is usually associated with a transient increase in blood coagulation as evidenced by a shortening of activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) and increased Factor VIII (FVIII). The rise in FVIII is intensity dependent and continues into recovery. The effects of acute exercise on plasma fibrinogen have yielded conflicting results. Thus, the issue of whether exercise-induced blood hypercoagulability in vitro mirrors an in vivo thrombin generation and fibrin formation remains disputable. Exercise-induced enhancement of fibrinolysis has been repeatedly demonstrated using a wide range of exercise protocols incorporating various exercise intensities and durations. Moderate exercise appears to enhance blood fibrinolytic activity without a concomitant activation of blood coagulation mechanisms, whereas, very heavy exercise induces simultaneous activation of blood fibrinolysis and coagulation. The increase in fibrinolysis is due to a rise in tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA) and decrease in plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI). The mechanism of exercise-induced hyperfibrinolysis is poorly understood, and the physiological utility of such activation remains unresolved. Strenuous exercise elicits a transient increase in platelet count, but there are conflicting results concerning the effect of exercise on platelet aggregation and activation. Few comprehensive studies exist concerning the influence of exercise training on blood hemostasis, making future investigation necessary to identify whether there are favorable effects of exercise training on blood coagulation, fibrinolysis, and platelet functions.
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- M S El-Sayed
- Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, School of Human Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, England.
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PURPOSE The role of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) lipid peroxides in strenuous exercise-induced changes in platelet function was studied in 30 patients (male/female = 22/8) aged 30-62 yr (mean +/- SD = 508). METHODS All subjects were subjected to a treadmill exercise test, using the standard Bruce protocol. Blood samples were collected pre-, peak, and 10 min postexercise to assess hematological and biochemical parameters and platelet aggregation. Ex vivo whole blood platelet aggregation during treadmill exercise was assessed in 10 subjects by adding mildly oxidized LDL. RESULTS Preexercise, a correlation existed between plasma thromboxane (TX) levels and plasma LDL cholesterol or beta-thromboglobulin (beta-TG) levels (r = 0.48, P < 0.05: r = 0.47, P < 0.05, respectively), whereas, at peak exercise, TX and beta-TG levels increased, but no correlation was seen. At peak exercise, platelets showed hyperaggregability in terms of maximal amplitude and reaction slope (P < 0.001 and P < 0.01, respectively). In contrast to the increase in plasma lipid peroxide levels seen during peak exercise (P < 0.05), LDL lipid peroxides decreased during exercise, this decrease reaching a statistical significance at 10 min postexercise (P < 0.05). In addition, the ex vivo addition of mildly oxidized LDL (10 mg protein x L(-1)) to peak exercise blood resulted in a significant attenuation of platelet aggregation and a decrease in TX release. At 10 min postexercise, a correlation was seen between LDL lipid peroxides and TX levels (r = 0.78, P < 0.001) or beta-TG levels (r = 0.68, P < 0.005). CONCLUSION These results suggest that LDL lipid peroxides play a role in modulating and attenuating platelet aggregation during strenuous exercise.
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- H C Hsu
- Department of Internal Medicine (Cardiology), National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei
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Feng DL, Murillo J, Jadhav P, McKenna C, Gebara OC, Lipinska I, Muller JE, Tofler GH. Upright posture and maximal exercise increase platelet aggregability and prostacyclin production in healthy male subjects. Br J Sports Med 1999; 33:401-4. [PMID: 10597849 PMCID: PMC1756221 DOI: 10.1136/bjsm.33.6.401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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BACKGROUND It is well accepted that heavy physical exertion can trigger the onset of myocardial infarction, but the mechanism is uncertain. As platelet and endothelial function play an important role in thrombotic events, platelet and prostacyclin responses to maximal treadmill exercise were studied. METHODS/RESULTS The study subjects were 40 healthy men, mean (SEM) age 29 (5) years. Platelet aggregation was measured on a four channel aggregometer. Plasma 6-keto-prostaglandin F1alpha was analysed using an enzyme immunoassay technique. Upright posture and exercise produced an increase in platelet aggregability, as indicated by a fall in the threshold concentration of adrenaline (epinephrine) from 7.6 (1.5) microM at rest to 4.3 (1.0) microM after exercise (p = 0.002). The collagen lag time became significantly shorter with exercise (from 79.1 (3.1) seconds at rest to 71.9 (2.6) seconds after exercise, p = 0.003). Exercise was also associated with a 55% increase in plasma 6-keto-prostaglandin F1alpha (from 38.1 (75%CI 29.0 to 46.5) pg/ml at rest to 59.2 (47.3 to 66.8) pg/ml after exercise, p<0.001). CONCLUSIONS In healthy male subjects, upright posture and maximal exercise increased platelet aggregability but this increase was counteracted by an increase in prostacyclin production. In patients with endothelial dysfunction, a reduced prostacyclin response to exercise may promote a transient prothrombotic imbalance that may trigger cardiovascular disease onset.
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- D L Feng
- Institute for Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Cardiovascular Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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BACKGROUND Dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) is a common, useful test for the evaluation of coronary artery disease. Two of 650 patients who underwent DSE at our institution sustained nonfatal myocardial infarction either during DSE or shortly thereafter. Although DSE is associated with low morbidity rates, this rate is higher than our experience with exercise treadmill testing (ETT). METHODS Six individuals who did not undergo DSE or ETT were enrolled to evaluate direct in vitro effects of dobutamine on platelets. Nine patients undergoing DSE and seven patients undergoing ETT were enrolled to evaluate in vivo platelet activation. We used flow cytometry and fluorescent-labeled monoclonal antibodies to activation-dependent platelet antigens to detect dobutamine-associated platelet activation both in vitro and in vivo. RESULTS In vitro we found a synergistic increase in epinephrine-induced CD62 expression in the presence of dobutamine. The response to the combination of dobutamine and epinephrine was 151% to 565% of the expected response. In vivo there was a dose- and time-dependent rise in the percentage of platelets expressing CD62 in all nine subjects undergoing DSE. The median percentage of platelets expressing CD62 was 1.6% (range 0.1% to 6.8%), 6.5% (range 0.2% to 11.7%), 11.6% (range 5.9% to 19.1%), and 11.4% (range 7.2% to 25.0%) in the samples obtained at baseline, 20 microg/kg/min of dobutamine, 40 microg/kg/min of dobutamine, and during the recovery phase, respectively (repeated measures analysis of variance, p = 0.02). There was no increase in CD62 expression on platelets obtained from seven patients at peak ETT. The median percentage of CD62 at baseline ETT was 1.9% (range 0.2% to 7.3%) and at peak was 2.6% (range 0.4% to 7.0%) (p = 0.156, Wilcoxon signed rank test). CONCLUSION We conclude that platelet activation occurs in vivo in patients undergoing DSE and that this may be caused by a synergistic effect of dobutamine with physiologic platelet agonists.
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- M T Galloway
- Division of Cardiology, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, USA
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This study compared the effects of exercise or TXB2 and beta-TG when evaluated by four methods: 1) not adjusted; 2) adjusted for plasma volume changes (PV); 3) standardized per 10(5) platelets (PC); 4) or both PC and PV (PC-PV). Blood was collected from 16 men (41.3 +/- 8.1 yr) at rest after 30 min of exercise (IPE) and after 30 min recovery. Resting TXB2 and beta-TG concentrations were 62.0 +/- 6.2 pg.mL-1 and 129.8 +/- 12.5 ng.mL-1, respectively. When expressed on a per 10(5) platelet basis, resting PCTXB2 was 23.8 +/- 2.8 pg.mL-1.10(5-1) platelets and PC beta-TG was 50.77 +/- 6.0 ng.mL-1. 10(5-1) platelets. At IPE, TXB2 decreased 20.5% and beta-TG increased 13.6%. Thirty minutes after exercise TXB2 was 4.2% lower than resting values, whereas beta-TG was 26% higher. TXB2, beta-TG, PVTXB2, and PV beta-TG were not significantly altered by exercise. The only significant changes in TXB2 occurred at IPE when values were adjusted for changes in platelet count. At IPE, PCTXB2, and PC-PVTXB2 decreased 32.8% and 33.6%, respectively (P < 0.05). Similarly, beta-TG were not altered significantly by exercise except when the samples taken after 30 min of recovery were adjusted for changes in platelet count. At 30 min post-exercise PC beta-TG and PC-PV beta-TG were 21.2% and 28.4% greater (P < 0.05) than the resting beta-TG values. These data suggest that methods used to adjust concentrations of platelet derived substances for changes owing to exercise may influence conclusions about the effect of exercise on platelet function. Thus, it is imperative that researchers consider the purpose for which they are collecting TXB2 and beta-TG, as well as other constituents derived from blood cells, before they determine which methods of analysis to use.
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- M K Todd
- Department of HPERD, Longwood College, Farmville, VA 23909, USA
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Chicharro JL, Sánchez O, Bandrés F, Vaquero AF, Pérez M, Lucía A, Guantes Y, Legido JC. Blood coagulability changes during exercise and its relationship with the anaerobic threshold. Thromb Res 1995; 79:515-22. [PMID: 7502277 DOI: 10.1016/0049-3848(95)00141-d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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- J L Chicharro
- Unidad de Investigación Escuela de Medicina del Deporte. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
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BACKGROUND Platelets play an important role in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases. It is also noticed that on one hand, regular exercise can reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases, and on the other hand, vigorous exercise provokes sudden cardiac death. We therefore hypothesize that various intensities of exercise may affect platelet function differently. METHODS AND RESULTS Strenuous and moderate exercise (about 50% to 55% of peak oxygen consumption, VO2peak) on a bicycle ergometer in 10 sedentary and 10 physically active healthy young men was executed on two separate occasions. Blood samples were collected before and immediately after exercise. A newly designed tapered parallel plate chamber was used to assess platelet adhesiveness. Platelet aggregation induced by ADP was evaluated by the percentage of reduction in single platelet count. beta-Thromboglobulin (beta-TG) and platelet factor 4 (PF4) were measured by ELISA. In addition, a similar study on 5 patients with stable angina were also conducted. Our results showed that (1) in the sedentary healthy group, platelet adhesiveness and aggregation were increased by strenuous exercise and depressed by moderate exercise; (2) in the active healthy group, platelet adhesiveness and aggregation were enhanced by severe exercise, whereas only aggregation was decreased by moderate exercise; (3) in the patients with stable angina, platelet adhesiveness and aggregation were enhanced by strenuous exercise and adhesiveness was suppressed by moderate exercise; (4) the degree of hemoconcentration induced by acute exercise tended to be related to the severity of exercise in all subjects; and (5) although severe exercise elevated beta-TG and PF4, there were no significant changes in beta-TG, PF4, and the ratio of beta-TG to PF4 in healthy subjects after exercise. CONCLUSIONS It is concluded that platelet adhesiveness and aggregability may be sensitized by strenuous exercise in both healthy subjects and patients with stable angina. In contrast, platelet function can be suppressed significantly by moderate exercise in the healthy and tends to be depressed in patients with stable angina. The former may increase the risk of cardiac arrest and the latter may protect us from cardiovascular diseases. In addition, the effects of acute exercise tend to be more pronounced in the sedentary than in the active.
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- J S Wang
- Department of Physiology, National Cheng-Kung, University Medical College, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China
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A number of hemostatic changes involving platelets, coagulation and fibrinolysis have been reported after acute physical exercise. Results have sometimes been controversial, due to differences in subjects investigated, type of exercise and methods used for hemostatic evaluation. On the whole, physical exercise has been shown to induce: (1) increases in platelet number and activity, (2) activation of coagulation leading to a slight but significant thrombin generation and (3) activation of fibrinolysis. These changes are short lasting. Less known are hemostatic changes induced by exercise training programs: a few data are available on the effects on platelets and coagulation, whereas studies performed on fibrinolysis show a decrease in plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 levels at rest and an increase in fibrinolytic capacity after training.
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Chen MF, Hsu HC, Lee YT. Effects of acute exercise on the changes of lipid profiles and peroxides, prostanoids, and platelet activation in hypercholesterolemic patients before and after treatment. Prostaglandins 1994; 48:157-74. [PMID: 7809382 DOI: 10.1016/0090-6980(94)90016-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The effects of acute exercise on the changes of plasma lipid profiles and peroxides, prostanoids and platelet activation in hypercholesterolemic patients before and after pravastatin 5 mg twice daily treatment for 4 weeks was studied in 30 (M/F = 21/9, age = 52 +/- 7, Mean +/- SD) patients with plasma total cholesterol level > 240 mg/dl. Pravastatin significantly reduced plasma total and low density lipoprotein cholesterol levels as expected. All patients before and after treatment and 30 healthy controls performed a treadmill exercise test using the standard Bruce protocol. The cardiac performance was similar in all groups. Treadmill exercise did not influence lipid levels after plasma volume correction. Hypercholesterolemic patients had significantly higher pre-exercise levels of malondialdehyde, thromboxane beta 2 and beta-thromboglobulin than after treatment or than pre-exercise levels in the control group. Treatment with lipid lowering drug pravastatin lowered the levels of these three parameters. At peak exercise, superoxide dismutase activity and 6-keto-PGF1 alpha were elevated. At 10 min post exercise only malondialdehyde returned to pre-exercise levels. The superoxide dismutase, thromboxane B2 and beta-thromboglobulin remained significantly higher. In the control subjects plasma beta-thromboglobulin and thromboxane 2 returned to pre-exercise levels. These results suggest that hypercholesterolemia may induce lipid peroxidation and platelet activation in resting status. Lowering of plasma cholesterol of pravastatin causes a concomitant decrease in plasma malondialdehyde, thromboxane and beta-thromboglobulin suggesting a decrease in lipid peroxidation and platelet activation. These changes were more pronounced in the hypercholesterolemic patients. Pravastatin treatment attenuated the increase in both malondialdehyde, beta-thromboglobulin and the prostanoids, but not to the level of normal subjects.
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- M F Chen
- Department of Internal Medicine (Cardiology) National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei
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Platelet aggregability might be increased during physical exercise. This, in turn, has been explained by the elevation of plasma catecholamines and by the state of lactic acidosis, which occur at high exercise intensities. The purpose of this investigation was to study the relationship between changes in platelet aggregability and exercise intensity, the latter being determined in reference to the anaerobic threshold (AT). Each of sixteen male subjects performed an incremental exercise test in order to determine both (a) his running velocity (VAT) corresponding to his anaerobic threshold and (b) his running velocity (V4mM) corresponding to 95% of his running velocity eliciting a blood lactate concentration of 4 mM.l-1. Three and six days after this preliminary test, respectively, each subject performed an exercise test of 30 minutes, at a constant running velocity of either VAT or V4mM. Running velocity for each day's test was randomly assigned. Both capillary and venous blood samples were collected immediately before and immediately after each test, and after 30 minutes of recovery from each test, respectively. Capillary blood samples were obtained for determination of blood lactate concentration, whereas venous blood samples were obtained for determination of platelet count, and platelet aggregation in response to ADP and collagen, respectively. Platelet count significantly increased (p < 0.001) immediately after the 30-minute-tests at either VAT and V4mM, remaining elevated (p < 0.05) after 30 minutes of recovery from the tests at V4mM. The results did not evidence any significant increase in platelet aggregability with exercise, except for aggregation response to ADP immediately after the tests performed at V4mM (p < 0.01).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- J L Chicharro
- Unidad de Investigación Escuela de Medicina del Deporte, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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We have previously shown that adrenaline infusion induces an almost twofold increase in systemic thromboxane synthesis, measured as urinary 11-dehydrothromboxane B2. The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether high levels of adrenaline, found e.g. in heavy physical exercise and myocardial infarction are involved in the regulation of prostacyclin synthesis. To this end the effect of adrenaline infusion (0.1 microgram/kg/min for 45 min and thereafter 0.2 microgram/kg/min for 15 min) on prostacyclin synthesis in healthy male volunteers was investigated. Adrenaline infusion produced an over twofold increase in systemic prostacyclin synthesis, measured as urinary 2,3-dinor-6-keto-prostaglandin F1 alpha. Our study demonstrates that high circulating levels of adrenaline are associated with increased formation of prostacyclin.
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- A Riutta
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland
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BACKGROUND It has been hypothesized that platelets are activated, or made more activatible, by strenuous exercise and that these changes may play a role in the genesis of exercise-induced coronary ischemia. Previous studies have yielded conflicting results but have used assays (eg, platelet aggregation, plasma platelet factor 4, and plasma beta-thromboglobulin) that are subject to methodological problems. METHODS AND RESULTS In the present study, a whole blood flow cytometric method was used to study the platelet activation state and reactivity of 12 physically active and 12 sedentary individuals before and after standardized treadmill exercise testing. The peptide gly-pro-arg-pro (GPRP) was included in this assay to prevent fibrin polymerization and platelet aggregation, thus allowing the measurement of the reactivity to thrombin of individual platelets in the physiological milieu of whole blood. A panel of fluorescent-labeled monoclonal antibodies was used to monitor activation-dependent platelet surface changes: downregulation of glycoprotein (GP) Ib (6D1) and upregulation of GMP-140 (S12), the GPIIb-IIIa complex (PAC1), and GPIV (OKM5). In samples obtained before exercise, platelets not exposed to thrombin showed no evidence of in vitro activation. In the sedentary subjects, exercise caused a consistent and significant augmentation of the platelet activation state and reactivity as judged by the binding of 6D1 in the presence of thrombin 0.05 U/mL (P < .001), 0.005 U/mL (P = .001), and 0 U/mL (P = .004) and by the binding of OKM5 in the presence of thrombin 0.05 U/mL (P < .001), 0.005 U/mL (P = .029), and 0 U/mL (P = .035). Exercise increased the binding of PAC1 at only a single thrombin concentration (0.005 U/mL, P = .027) and did not alter the binding of S12 at any thrombin concentration. In contrast, in the physically active subjects, exercise failed to cause a consistent alteration in either platelet activation state or platelet reactivity. No significant differences were found between the 12 male and 12 female volunteers. CONCLUSIONS Strenuous exercise in sedentary subjects but not physically active subjects resulted in both platelet activation and platelet hyperreactivity. These changes were more readily detected with monoclonal antibodies directed against GPIb (6D1) and, to a lesser extent, GPIV (OKM5) rather than those directed against the GPIIb-IIIa complex (PAC1) and GMP-140 (S12). Platelet activation by thrombin, generally regarded as the most physiologically important agonist, can be studied in whole blood in a clinical setting through the use of the peptide GPRP.
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- A S Kestin
- Department of Medicine, Medical Center of Central Massachusetts, Worcester
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Ronni-Sivula H, Malm H, Ylikorkala O, Viinikka L. Marathon run stimulates more prostacyclin than thromboxane synthesis and differently in men and women. Prostaglandins 1993; 46:75-9. [PMID: 8378544 DOI: 10.1016/0090-6980(93)90064-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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To study the effect of strenuous physical exercise on the balance between vasodilatory and antiaggregatory prostacyclin (PGI2) and its endogenous antagonist thromboxane A2 (TxA2), we measured the urinary output of two metabolites of PGI2 (6-keto-prostaglandin F1 alfa, 6-keto, and 2,3-dinor-6-keto), as well as two metabolites of TxA2 (thromboxane B2, TxB2, and 2,3-dinor-TxB2) ten days before, during and one, three and five days after a marathon run by 15 women and ten men. The basal urinary outputs of women and men were similar. In women, 6-keto excretion increased 10-fold (p < 0.001) and in men 30-fold (p < 0.05) during the run, and 2,3-dinor-6-keto increased 2-fold in women (p < 0.05) and 7-fold in men (p < 0.05). During the run, TxB2 output increased only in women (3-fold, p < 0.05) and 2,3-dinor-TxB2 only in men (4-fold, p < 0.05). The marathon-induced changes lasted maximally one day. The greater PGI2-than TxA2-stimulation during marathon run may be involved with the favorable effects on the cardiovascular system of physical exercise.
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- H Ronni-Sivula
- II Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University of Helsinki, Finland
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The effects of exercise training on eicosanoid levels were studied in male Wistar rats. One-month-old rats were trained on a drum exerciser at an intensity of around 70% of maximal oxygen consumption for 10 weeks (60 min day-1, 5 days week-1) after familiarization. Some animals of the same age did not exercise and served as a control. Two days after training, several blood vessels, including thoracic aortae, inferior vena cavae, external iliac arteries, external iliac veins, common carotid arteries and jugular veins, were excised and incubated for 10 min. Basal release of prostacyclin from these vessels was determined using [125I]radio-immunoassay (RIA) of 6-keto-PGF1 alpha. The levels of plasma prostacyclin and urinary metabolites of prostacyclin and thromboxane were also determined by RIA. Our results showed that trained animals had lower body weight and urine 11-dehydro-thromboxane B2 levels than the controls (P < 0.001 and P < 0.05, respectively). In contrast, urinary 2,3-dinor-6-keto-PGF1 alpha level was elevated after training (P < 0.05). Nonetheless, prostacyclin levels in plasma and from various dissected vessel segments, except thoracic aorta, did not change significantly after training. These findings suggest that exercise training may affect endogenous eicosanoid levels by increasing the basal release of prostacyclin and reducing the basal thromboxane level.
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- H I Chen
- Department of Physiology, Medical College, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China
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Many investigators have studied the influence of physical exercise on hemostatic system and it is well accepted that exercise causes an activation of coagulation as indicated by a shortening of aPTT and by an increase in plasma factor VIII activity and levels. A controversial point remains whether this clotting activation leads to a significant thrombin generation and fibrin formation. The type of physical exercise performed and the methods used to study blood coagulation may be two major sources of discrepancies in different studies. In the last years sensitive and reliable methods became available to evaluate prothrombin activation and thrombin generation. Thus in this study we have investigated the influence of a well standardized treadmill stress test, controlled by the measurement of cardiorespiratory and metabolic parameters, on plasma concentration of different markers of clotting activation in healthy untrained young subjects. Blood samples were also withdrawn just before anaerobic threshold to investigate a possible role of metabolic acidosis in changes of clotting system.
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- D Prisco
- Clinica Medica I, University of Florence, Italy
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Urinary excretion of prostaglandins E2, F2 alpha, E-M (7 alpha-hydroxy-5, 11-diketotetranor-prosta-1, 16-dioic acid), 6-keto F1 alpha, 2,3-dinor-6-keto-F1 alpha, thromboxane B2, 2,3-dinor-thromboxane B2 and 11-dehydrothromboxane B2 was determined by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry in 83 healthy subjects aged one day to 37 years. The excretion rates of all prostanoids increased with advancing age. After correction for 1.73 m2 body surface area, only urinary excretion rates of prostaglandins E-M and 6-keto-prostaglandin F1 alpha depended on age. Reference intervals were calculated as the 10th and 90th percentiles for prostaglandins E2 (4-27 ng/h/1.73 m2), F2 alpha (23-87 ng/h/1.73 m2), 2,3-dinor-6-keto-F1 alpha (4-19 ng/h/1.73 m2), thromboxane B2 (1-21 ng/h/1.73 m2), 2,3-dinor-thromboxane B2 (8-36 ng/h/1.73 m2) and 11-dehydro-thromboxane B2 (15-87 ng/h/1.73 m2) in all subjects, and for prostaglandins E-M and 6-keto-prostaglandin F1 alpha in subjects aged 30 days or less (110-1140 ng/h/1.73 m2 and 7-23 ng/h/1.73 m2) and older than 30 days (62-482 ng/h/1.73 m2 and 2-12 ng/h/1.73 m2). High urinary excretion of prostaglandins E-M and 6-keto-F1 alpha during the newborn period and some distinct changes in urinary excretion of prostaglandin E2 and thromboxane B2 with advancing age suggest that these prostanoids might play a specific role during child development.
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- A Leonhardt
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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