Journal
JOURNAL OF BIOMATERIALS SCIENCE-POLYMER EDITION
Volume 19, Issue 10, Pages 1383-1410Publisher
VSP BV
DOI: 10.1163/156856208786052353
Keywords
Platelet adhesion; fibrinogen; von Willebrand factor; flow; polystyrene
Funding
- NIH/NHLBI [HL67923]
- NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE [R01HL067923] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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The roles of adsorbed fibrinogen (Fg) and von Willebrand factor (VWF) in mediating platelet adhesion to synthetic surfaces under flow were investigated using polystyrene (PS) as a model hydrophobic surface. We measured platelet adhesion to PS pre-adsorbed with Fg, VWF, normal plasma, afibrinogenemic plasma, VWF-deficient plasma and deficient plasmas with various concentrations of added Fg or VWF. Platelets in a red blood cell suspension were passed through a flow chamber at either low (50 or 100 s(-1)) or high (500 or 1000 s(-1)) shear. Adhesion to PS preadsorbed with afibrinogenemic plasma was very low under both low and high shear conditions, but was restored in a dose-dependent manner with addition of Fg. Less than 20 ng/cm(2) of adsorbed Fg was sufficient to support full-scale platelet adhesion under flow. At high shear rate, platelet adhesion on PS pre-adsorbed with VWF-deficient plasma was much less than on PS pre-adsorbed with normal plasma, but adhesion to PS pre-adsorbed with VWF-deficient plasma with added VWF was very similar to adhesion to PS pre-adsorbed with normal plasma. At low shear, adhesion to PS pre-adsorbed with VWF-deficient plasma was the same as on PS pre-adsorbed with normal plasma. As little as 1 ng/cm(2) of VWF adsorbed from plasma made platelet adhesion higher under high shear than under low shear. The effects of adsorbed Fg and VWF on the morphologies of platelets that adhered from suspensions flowing at high shear rates were also investigated. The lack of either Fg or VWF resulted in marked decreases in the extent of platelet spreading. Real-time observation of platelet adhesion under an epifluorescent microscope showed that platelets adhered to the surface in a linear pattern aligned in the direction of flow under high shear conditions.
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