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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY
Volume 171, Issue 3, Pages 1066-1077Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.2353/ajpath.2007.070104
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [R01GM037704] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM037704, R01 GM037704-18, 5R01GM037704-17] Funding Source: Medline
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Increased tissue factor (TF)-dependent procoagulant activity in sepsis may be partly due to decreased expression or function of tissue factor pathway inhibitor (TFPI). To test this hypothesis, baboons were infused with five Escherichia coli and sacrificed after 2, 8, or 24 hours. Confocal and electron microscopy revealed increased leukocyte infiltration and fibrin deposition in the intravascular and interstitial compartments. large amounts of TF were detected by immunostaining in leu kocytes and platelet-rich microthrombi TF induction was documented by quantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and coagulation assays. Lung-associated TFPI an tigen and mRNA decreased during sepsis, and TFPI activity diminished abruptly at 2 hours. Blocking antibodies against TFPI increased fibrin deposition in septic baboon lungs, suggesting that TF-dependent coagulation might be aggravated by reduced endothelial TFPI Decreased TFPI activity coincided with the release of tissue plasminogen activator and the peak of plas generation, suggesting that TFPI could undergo proteolytic inactivation by plasmin. Enhanced plasmin produced in septic baboons by infusion of blocking antibodies against plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 led to decreased lung-associated TFPI and unforeseen massive fibrin deposition. We conclude that activation of TF-driven coagulation not adequately countered by TFPI may underlie the widespread thrombotic complications of sepsis.
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