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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-8-17
pubmed:abstractText
Tumour necrosis factor (TNF) is known to have procoagulant activity, and platelet depletion is a feature of TNF-mediated systemic inflammatory responses. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of fibrinogen consumption in the development of TNF-mediated systemic inflammatory responses and in the associated depletion of platelets. Three murine models of TNF-mediated systemic inflammatory responses were examined: the systemic toxicity reactions (STR) induced by TNF or lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and severe malaria (SM), a prominently neurological complication of Plasmodium berghei ANKA infection in susceptible mice. There was an acceleration in the consumption of fibrinogen during TNF-STR but not during LPS-STR or SM. However, a concomitant reduction in platelet count was found in all conditions. Mice preliminarily depleted in fibrinogen by treatment with ancrod, an enzyme that specifically degrades fibrinogen, showed no protection against mortality during TNF- or LPS-STR or SM, although they were protected against tissue damage during a modification of the classical local Shwartzman reaction. During TNF- and LPS-STR platelets were even lower in ancrod-treated than control mice and during SM they were not significantly different. This study shows that fibrinogen consumption, although accelerated by the direct injection of TNF, is not necessary for the development of TNF-mediated systemic inflammatory responses in mice, at variance with local pathology, and does not contribute to the associated depletion of platelets.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1043-4666
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
10
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
382-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:9619377-Ancrod, pubmed-meshheading:9619377-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:9619377-Blood Platelets, pubmed-meshheading:9619377-Coagulants, pubmed-meshheading:9619377-Disease Models, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:9619377-Female, pubmed-meshheading:9619377-Fibrinogen, pubmed-meshheading:9619377-Fibrinolytic Agents, pubmed-meshheading:9619377-Iodine Radioisotopes, pubmed-meshheading:9619377-Lipopolysaccharides, pubmed-meshheading:9619377-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:9619377-Mice, Inbred BALB C, pubmed-meshheading:9619377-Mice, Inbred CBA, pubmed-meshheading:9619377-Plasmodium berghei, pubmed-meshheading:9619377-Platelet Count, pubmed-meshheading:9619377-Prothrombin Time, pubmed-meshheading:9619377-Recombinant Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9619377-Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, pubmed-meshheading:9619377-Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Mortality and platelet depletion occur independently of fibrinogen consumption in murine models of tumour necrosis factor-mediated systemic inflammatory responses.
pubmed:affiliation
Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA 91320-1789, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article