1. Levels of serum inhibitor of plasminogen activation, anti-plasmin and plasminogen activator were measured in normal subjects and patients with active glomerulonephritis and chronic renal failure. 2. Patients with active glomerulonephritis all had grossly elevated levels of serum inhibitor of plasminogen activation and significant elevation of anti-plasmin. The majority of activator levels la...

Background: Transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) arrests many cell types in the G1 phase of the cell cycle and upregulates plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 (PAI-1). The type I (TGF-βRI) and II (TGF-βRII) TGF-β receptors mediate these and other effects of TGF-β on target cells. TGF-β initially binds to TGF-βRII and subsequently TGF-βRI is recruited to form a heteromeric complex. TGF-βRI phospho...

purpose: to compare the effect of tissue plasminogen activator (tpa) and aspirin in patients with central retinal vein occlusion. methods: a prospective interventional study was conducted on patients with central retinal vein occlusion of less than 28 days' duration. patients in the tpa group received 100 μg intravitreal tissue plasminogen activator and the patients who declined intravitre...

OBJECTIVE The development of osteoporosis is associated with several risk factors, such as genetic structures that affect bone turnover and bone mass. The impact of genetic structures on osteoporosis is not known. Plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1 regulates the bone matrix and bone balance. This study assessed the correlation between plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1 gene 4G/5G polymo...

We analyzed the levels of circulating tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) and plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI)-1 in acute hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS) and hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS). The levels of tPA commonly increased in both diseases, whereas PAI-1 correlated with disease severity in HCPS but not in HFRS.