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PURINERGIC SIGNALLING
卷 18, 期 2, 页码 223-239出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11302-022-09842-w
关键词
ATP; Adenosine; Plasma adenylates; Purinergic signaling; HPLC
资金
- National Institutes of Health [HD-098363, GM-116162, GM-136429]
ATP released into the bloodstream regulates immune responses and other physiological functions. This study optimized a method to accurately assess ATP concentrations in blood and found that rapid chilling of blood samples and differential centrifugation were key steps. Healthy adults had a plasma ATP concentration of 33+/-20 nM, while critically ill patients had ATP levels 6 times higher.
ATP released into the bloodstream regulates immune responses and other physiological functions. Excessive accumulation of extracellular ATP interferes with these functions, and elevated plasma ATP levels could indicate infections and other pathological disorders. However, there is considerable disagreement about what constitutes normal plasma ATP levels. Therefore, we optimized a method to accurately assess ATP concentrations in blood. We found that rapid chilling of heparinized blood samples is essential to preserve in vivo ATP levels and that differential centrifugation minimizes inadvertent ATP release due to cell damage and mechanical stress. Plasma samples were stabilized with perchloric acid, etheno-derivatized, and delipidated for sensitive analysis of ATP and related compounds using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and fluorescence detection. We measured 33 +/- 20 nM ATP, 90 +/- 45 nM ADP, 100 +/- 55 nM AMP, and 81 +/- 51 nM adenosine in the blood of healthy human adults (n = 10). In critically ill patients, ATP levels were 6 times higher than in healthy subjects. The anticoagulant greatly affected results. ATP levels were nearly 8 times higher in EDTA plasma than in heparin plasma, while AMP levels were 3 times lower and adenosine was entirely absent in EDTA plasma. If EDTA blood was not immediately chilled, ATP, ADP, and AMP levels continued to rise, which indicates that EDTA interferes with the endogenous mechanisms that regulate plasma adenylate levels. Our optimized method eliminates artifacts that prevent accurate determination of plasma adenylates and will be useful for studying mechanisms that regulate adenylate levels and for monitoring of pathological processes in patients with infections and other diseases.
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