Ultrasonic Detection of Platelet Aggregation at Variable Shear Rates
作者:
Junji Machi,
Bernard Sigel,
Jose R. Ramos,
Jeffrey R. Justin,
Harold Feinberg,
Guy C. LeBreton,
Abel L. Robertson, Jr.,
期刊:
Pathophysiology of Haemostasis and Thrombosis
(Karger Available online 1984)
卷期:
Volume 14,
issue 6
页码: 473-479
ISSN:1424-8832
年代: 1984
DOI:10.1159/000215108
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Platelet aggregation;Growth of aggregates;Sedimentation of aggregates;Shear rate of flow;Real-time ultrasound imaging;Ultrasonic aggregometry
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
We have observed that high-resolution ultrasonic imaging can be used to detect and measure the size and sedimentation of large human platelet aggregates formed in vitro. At progressively lower shear rates, individual platelet aggregates grew in cross-sectional area from the limit of ultrasonic detectability of less than 1 mm2 at moderate shear rates to an approximate mean area of 25 mm2 at zero shear. Platelet aggregates tended to sediment at mean shear rates higher than zero shear. At a shear rate of 5.5 s-1, 70% of platelet aggregates had settled, and at 1.6 s-1, 90% had settled to the dependent half of horizontal tubes in less than 15 s. Ultrasonic aggregometry of platelets may be a valuable technique for investigation of platelet dynamics under controlled flow conditions in vitro.
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