Elevated tissue factor procoagulant activity in CD133-positive cancer cells

Whole-Blood Tissue Factor Procoagulant Activity Is Elevated in Type 1 Diabetes

OBJECTIVE To determine tissue factor procoagulant activity (TF-PCA) in patients with type 1 diabetes and to examine effects of hyperglycemia and hyperglycemia plus hyperinsulinemia on TF-PCA. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We have determined circulating TF-PCA and other coagulation factors under basal (hyperglycemic) conditions, after acute correction of hyperglycemia, in response to 24 h of sel...

Whole blood tissue factor procoagulant activity is elevated in patients with sickle cell disease.

We developed a simple assay for the measurement of tissue factor procoagulant activity (TF PCA) in whole blood samples that avoids the need for mononuclear cell isolation. This method combines convenience of sample collection and processing with a high degree of sensitivity and specificity for TF. Using this method, we have determined that TF PCA is detectable in whole blood samples from normal...

Destruction of factor VIII procoagulant activity in tissue culture media.

Human endothelial cells have been repoded to synthesize protein that has von Willebrand factor activity and reacts with a heterologous antibody to plasma factor VIll/von Willebrand factor ( FVlll/vWF); however, no FVlll procoagulant activity has been associated with the protein produced by endothelial cells. Of its three biologic properties, only the FVlll procoagulant activity of purified plas...

GLucocorticoids inhibit the generation of leukocyte procoagulant (tissue factor) activity.

Expression of tissue factor procoagulant activity: regulation by cytosolic calcium.

Intact bovine fibroblasts, pericytes, and kidney cells manifested significantly less tissue factor procoagulant activity than their disrupted counterparts. Addition of calcium ionophore A23187 rapidly and reversibly enhanced the cell-surface expression of tissue factor in intact cells up to the level achieved by disruption. Inhibitors of calmodulin blocked the ionophore-dependent enhancement of...