{"title":"Heterogeneous phase fibrinolysis rates by damped oscillation rheometry.","authors":"Jae-Suk Lee, Makoto Kaibara, Edgar A O'Rear","doi":"10.3233/BIR-15089","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Devices gauging viscoelastic properties of blood during coagulation like the thromboelastograph support fundamental research as well as point of care needs. Associated fibrinolysis data are based on endogenous species or plasminogen activator added to a homogeneous sample prior to clot formation. Digestion in a monolithic structure differs from the physical situation of thrombolytic therapy where surface reactions dominate.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study aims to develop rheological testing for heterogeneous phase fibrinolysis.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Fibrinolysis rates were determined by phase change of a solid clot induced by autologous plasma/streptokinase (SK) in a rheometer sensitive to viscous damping.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Initial slope or overall change in the logarithmic damping factor indicated fibrinolytic rates. Rates depended on clot geometry, phase volumes, clot composition and SK concentration.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The damped oscillation rheometer can be adapted to determine relative rates of heterogeneous fibrinolysis in vitro.</p>","PeriodicalId":9167,"journal":{"name":"Biorheology","volume":"53 2","pages":"81-92"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3233/BIR-15089","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Biorheology","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3233/BIR-15089","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"BIOPHYSICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Background: Devices gauging viscoelastic properties of blood during coagulation like the thromboelastograph support fundamental research as well as point of care needs. Associated fibrinolysis data are based on endogenous species or plasminogen activator added to a homogeneous sample prior to clot formation. Digestion in a monolithic structure differs from the physical situation of thrombolytic therapy where surface reactions dominate.
Objective: This study aims to develop rheological testing for heterogeneous phase fibrinolysis.
Method: Fibrinolysis rates were determined by phase change of a solid clot induced by autologous plasma/streptokinase (SK) in a rheometer sensitive to viscous damping.
Results: Initial slope or overall change in the logarithmic damping factor indicated fibrinolytic rates. Rates depended on clot geometry, phase volumes, clot composition and SK concentration.
Conclusion: The damped oscillation rheometer can be adapted to determine relative rates of heterogeneous fibrinolysis in vitro.
期刊介绍:
Biorheology is an international interdisciplinary journal that publishes research on the deformation and flow properties of biological systems or materials. It is the aim of the editors and publishers of Biorheology to bring together contributions from those working in various fields of biorheological research from all over the world. A diverse editorial board with broad international representation provides guidance and expertise in wide-ranging applications of rheological methods to biological systems and materials.
The scope of papers solicited by Biorheology extends to systems at different levels of organization that have never been studied before, or, if studied previously, have either never been analyzed in terms of their rheological properties or have not been studied from the point of view of the rheological matching between their structural and functional properties. This biorheological approach applies in particular to molecular studies where changes of physical properties and conformation are investigated without reference to how the process actually takes place, how the forces generated are matched to the properties of the structures and environment concerned, proper time scales, or what structures or strength of structures are required.