DOI: 10.1055/s-00035024

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Issue 09 · Volume 94 · 2005 DOI: 10.1055/s-008-36071

Editorial Focus

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Stock, Ulrich A.: Tissue engineering of heart valves - hype or hope?

Review Article

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Leurs, Judith; Hendriks, Dirk: Carboxypeptidase U (TAFIa): a metallocarboxypeptidase with a distinct role in haemostasis and a possible risk factor for thrombotic disease
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Tan, Kiat T.; Lip, Gregory Y. H.: The potential role of platelet microparticles in atherosclerosis

Rapid and Short Communication

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Rosen, Elliot D.; Xu, Haifeng; Liang, Zhong; Martin, J. Andrew; Suckow, Mark; Castellino, Francis J.: Generation of genetically-altered mice producing very low levels of coagulation factor VII

Blood Coagulation, Fibrinolysis and Cellular Haemostasis

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Cooley, Brian C.; Szema, Linda; Chen, Chao-Ying; Schwab, Jeffrey P.; Schmeling, Gregory: A murine model of deep vein thrombosis Characterization and validation in transgenic mice
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Motton, Deborah D.; Mackman, Nigel; Tilley, Rachel E.; Rutledge, John C.: Postprandial elevation of tissue factor antigen in the blood of healthy adults
510
Guéant-Rodriguez, Rosa-Maria; Juilliére, Yves; Candito, Mirande; Adjalla, Charles E.; Gibelin, Pierre; Herbeth, Bernard; Obberghen, Emmanuel Van; Guéant, Jean-Louis: Association of MTRR A66G polymorphism (but not of MTHFR C677T and A1298C, MTR A2756G, TCN C776G) with homocysteine and coronary artery disease in the French population
516
Male, Christoph; Julian, Jim A.; Massicotte, Patricia; Gent, Michael; Mitchell, Lesley; for the PROTEKT Study Group: Significant association with location of central venous line placement and risk of venous thrombosis in children
522
Eriksson, Henry; Lundström, Torbjörn; Wåhlander, Karin; Billing Clason, Solveig; Schulman, Sam; for the THRIVE III Investigators: Prognostic factors for recurrence of venous thromboembolism (VTE) or bleeding during long-term secondary prevention of VTE with ximelagatran
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Douketis, James D.; Woods, Karen; Foster, Gary A.; Crowther, Mark A.: Bridging anticoagulation with low-molecular-weight heparin after interruption of warfarin therapy is associated with a residual anticoagulant effect prior to surgery
532
Schellong, Sebastian; Hesselschwerdt, Hans-Jürgen; Dieter Paar, W.; von Hanstein, Karl-Ludwig: Rates of proximal deep vein thrombosis as assessed by compression ultrasonography in patients receiving prolonged thromboprophylaxis with low molecular weight heparin after major orthopedic surgery
537
Gasse, Christiane; Hollowell, Jennifer; Meier, Christoph R.; Haefeli, Walter E.: Drug interactions and risk of acute bleeding leading to hospitalisation or death in patients with chronic atrial fibrillation treated with warfarin
544
Shitrit, David; Peled, Nir; Shitrit, Ariella Bar-Gil; Meidan, Silvia; Bendayan, Daniel; Sahar, Gidon; Kramer, Mordechai R.: An association between oxygen desaturation and D-dimer in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome
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Dunn, Andrew S.; Kaboli, Peter; Halfdanarson, Thorvardur; Chan, Happy; Hubert, Rod; Rosen, Seth; White, Richard H.: Do patients followed in anticoagulation clinics for antiphospholipid syndrome meet criteria for the disorder?

Platelets and Blood Cells

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Langer, Harald; May, Andreas E.; Bültmann, Andreas; Gawaz, Meinrad: ADAM15 is an adhesion receptor for platelet GPIIb-IIIa and induces platelet activation
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Kasimir, Marie-Theres; Weigel, Guenter; Sharma, Jyotindra; Rieder, Erwin; Seebacher, Gernot; Wolner, Ernst; Simon, Paul: The decellularized porcine heart valve matrix in tissue engineering
568
Evangelista, Virgilio; Manarini, Stefano; Dell’Elba, Giuseppe; Martelli, Nicola; Napoleone, Emanuela; Santo, Angelomaria Di; Savi, Pierre; Lorenzet, Roberto: Clopidogrel inhibits platelet-leukocyte adhesion and plateletdependent leukocyte activation
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Bermejo, Emilse; Sáenz, Daniel A.; Alberto, Fabiana; Rosenstein, Ruth E.; Bari, Sara E.; Lazzari, María A.: Effect of nitroxyl on human platelets function
585
Suehiro, Youko; Veljkovic, Dragoslava Kika; Fuller, Nola; Motomura, Yasuaki; Massé, Jean Marc; Cramer, Elisabeth M.; Hayward, Catherine P. M.: Endocytosis and storage of plasma factor V by human megakaryocytes
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Hasegawa, Michihiro; Sugidachi, Atsuhiro; Ogawa, Taketoshi; Isobe, Takashi; Jakubowski, Joseph A.; Asai, Fumitoshi: Stereoselective inhibition of human platelet aggregation by R-138727, the active metabolite of CS-747 (Prasugrel, LY640315), a novel P2Y12 receptor inhibitor
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Helena Liang, Hai Po; Morel-Kopp, Marie-Christine; Clemetson, Jeannine M.; Clemetson, Kenneth J.; Kekomaki, Riitta; Kroll, Hartmut; Michaelides, Katerina; Tuddenham, Edward G. D.; Vanhoorelbeke, Karen; Ward, Christopher M.: A common ancestral glycoprotein (GP) 9 1828A>G (Asn45Ser) gene mutation occurring in European families from Australia and Northern Europe with Bernard-Soulier syndrome (BSS)

Endothelium and Vascular Development

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Katkade, Vaibhav; Soyombo, Abigail A.; Isordia-Salas, Irma; Bradford, Harlan N.; Gaughan, John P.; Colman, Robert W.; Panetti, Tracee S.: Domain 5 of cleaved high molecular weight kininogen inhibits endothelial cell migration through Akt
615
Fernández-Real, José-Manuel; López-Bermejo, Abel; Castro, Antoni; Broch, Montserrat; Peñarroja, Georgina; Vendrell, Joan; Vázquez, Gabriel; Ricart, Wifredo: Opposite relationship between circulating soluble CD14 concentration and endothelial function in diabetic and nondiabetic subjects

Cell Signalling and Vessel Remodelling

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Seebach, Jochen; Mädler, Hans-Jürgen; Wojciak-Stothard, Beata; Schnittler, Hans-Joachim: Tyrosine phosphorylation and the small GTPase rac cross-talk in regulation of endothelial barrier function
630
Weissmann, Norbert; Manz, Daniel; Buchspies, Daniela; Keller, Stephan; Mehling, Tanja; Voswinckel, Robert; Quanz, Karin; Ghofrani, Hossein A.; Schermuly, Ralph T.; Fink, Ludger; Seeger, Werner; Gassmann, Max: Congenital erythropoietin over-expression causes “anti-pulmonary hypertensive” structural and functional changes in mice, both in normoxia and hypoxia
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Cullen, John P.; Sayeed, Shariq; Kim, Youngrin; Theodorakis, Nicholas G.; Sitzmann, James V.; Cahill, Paul A.; Redmond, Eileen M.: Ethanol inhibits pulse pressure-induced vascular smooth muscle cell migration by differentially modulating plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1, matrix metalloproteinase-2 and -9
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Marculescu, Rodrig; Sodeck, Gottfried; Domanovits, Hans; Hobusch, Gerhard; Exner, Markus; Heinzl, Harald; Huber, Kurt; Mannhalter, Christine; Minar, Erich; Wagner, Oswald; Schillinger, Martin: Interleukin-1 gene cluster variants and abdominal aortic aneurysms

Cellular Proteolysis and Oncology

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Gao, Shan; Skeldal, Sune; Krogdahl, Annelise; Sørensen, Jens Ahm; Andreasen, Peter A.: CpG methylation of the PAI-1 gene 5’-flanking region is inversely correlated with PAI-1 mRNA levels in human cell lines

New Technologies and Diagnostic Tools

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Tizzano, Eduardo F.; Barceló, María J.; Baena, Manel; Cornet, Mónica; Venceslá, Adoración; Mateo, José; Fontcuberta, Jordi; Baiget, Montserrat: Rapid identification of female haemophilia A carriers with deletions in the factor VIII gene by quantitative Real-Time PCR analysis
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Reber, Guido; Tincani, Angela; Sanmarco, Marielle; de Moerloose, Philippe; Boffa, Marie-Claire: Variability of anti-β2 glycoprotein I antibodies measurement by commercial assays

Case Report

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Bekkenk, Marcel W.; van Zuuren, Esther J.: Immediate type hypersensitivity after injection of nadroparin (Fraxiparin)
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Tizzano, Eduardo F.; Venceslá, Adoración; Baena, Manel; Cornet, Mónica; Calvo, María T.; Lucía, José F.; Garrido, Rosario Pérez; Núñez, Ramiro; Baiget, Montserrat.: First report of two independent point factor VIII mutations in a family with haemophilia A: a word of caution for carrier diagnosis
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Chinthammitr, Yingyong; Chinchang, Worrawut; Ruchutrakool, Theera; Viprakasit, Vip: Identification of the novel signal peptide mutation, antithrombin-Siriraj causes type-I antithrombin deficiency in Thai patients
680
Carlo, Marco De; Limbruno, Ugo; Pistolesi, Sabina; Fontanini, Gabriella; Petronio, Anna S.; Balbarini, Alberto; Caterina, Raffaele De: Distal embolization during angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction: is pharmacological protection enough?

Letters to the Editor

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Vieira, Carolina S.; Ferriani, Rui A.; Garcia, Andréa A.; Gomes, Mariana K. O.; Azevedo, George D.; Silva de Sá, Marcos F.: Transitory reduction of platelet aggregation with the use of etonogestrel implant in healthy women
684
Hölschermann, Hans; Krombach, Cathrin; Jung, Anette; Jacobi, Felix; Tillmanns, Harald; Weinand, Frank: Treatment of acute central retinal artery occlusion with the platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor inhibitor tirofiban
686
Reny, Jean Luc; Remones, Véronique; Fontana, Pierre; Bieche, Ivan; Desvard, Florence; Aubry, Marie-Laurence; Gaussem, Pascale; Aiach, Martine: The thrombomodulin-1208/-1209delTT gene promoter polymorphism does not affect basal or LPSdependent monocyte TM mRNA transcription in healthy volunteers
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Bailleul, Els; Vaerenbergh, Kristien Van; Lust, Antoon: Rebuttal to: Strong Lupus Anticoagulant can influence the prothrombin time INR falsifying the follow up of oral anticoagulation
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Ames, Paul R. J.; Ciampa, Antonio; Margaglione, Maurizio; Scenna, Giovanna; Iannaccone, Luigi; Brannaccio, Vincenzo: Reply to Rebuttal: Strong Lupus Anticoagulant can influence the prothrombin time INR falsifying the follow up of oral anticoagulation
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Marcucci, Rossella; Gori, Anna Maria; Bertuccioli, Mario; Gensini, Gian Franco; Abbate, Rosanna: In vivo effect of Chianti red wine on Tissue Factor, Tissue Factor Pathway Inhibitor and Homocysteine levels
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Quteineh, Lina; Verstuyft, Celine; Descot, Christelle; Gensini, Gian Franco; Dubert, Liliane; Robert, Annie; Jaillon, Patrice; Becquemont, Laurent: Vitamin K epoxide reductase (VKORC1) genetic polymorphism is associated to oral anticoagulant overdose