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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-81268-7
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- British Heart Foundation (BHF) Programme Grant [RG/18/11/34036]
- Wellcome Investigator Award [204951/B/16/Z]
- MRC [G1001502] Funding Source: UKRI
- Wellcome Trust [204951/B/16/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
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Neutrophils and NETs have procoagulant effects in plasma, but not in purified fibrinogen, indicating other factors mediate the interaction. NETs increase clot density, while neutrophils induce less stable and more porous clots. Additionally, neutrophils and NETs may induce clotting through different pathways, with NETs possibly mediated by FXI.
Neutrophils and neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) have been shown to be involved in coagulation. However, the interactions between neutrophils or NETs and fibrin(ogen) in clots, and the mechanisms behind these interactions are not yet fully understood. In this in vitro study, the role of neutrophils or NETs on clot structure, formation and dissolution was studied with a combination of confocal microscopy, turbidity and permeation experiments. Factor (F)XII, FXI and FVII-deficient plasmas were used to investigate which factors may be involved in the procoagulant effects. We found both neutrophils and NETs promote clotting in plasma without the addition of other coagulation triggers, but not in purified fibrinogen, indicating that other factors mediate the interaction. The procoagulant effects of neutrophils and NETs were also observed in FXII- and FVII-deficient plasma. In FXI-deficient plasma, only the procoagulant effects of NETs were observed, but not of neutrophils. NETs increased the density of clots, particularly in the vicinity of the NETs, while neutrophils-induced clots were less stable and more porous. In conclusion, NETs accelerate clotting and contribute to the formation of a denser, more lysis resistant clot architecture. Neutrophils, or their released mediators, may induce clotting in a different manner to NETs, mediated by FXI.
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