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Thromb Haemost 1983; 50(03): 726-730
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1665296
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Interaction of Human Tumor Cells with Human Platelets and the Coagulation System

Hamid Al-Mondhiry
The Divisions of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, the Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine, the M. S. Hershey Medical Center Hershey, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
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Virginia McGarvey
The Divisions of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, the Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine, the M. S. Hershey Medical Center Hershey, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
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Kim Leitzel
The Divisions of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, the Pennsylvania State University, College of Medicine, the M. S. Hershey Medical Center Hershey, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
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Received 30 March 1983

Accepted 05 August 1983

Publication Date:
18 July 2018 (online)

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Summary

This paper reports studies on the interaction between human platelets, the plasma coagulation system, and two human tumor cell lines grown in tissue culture: Melanoma and breast adenocarcinoma. The interaction was monitored through the use of 125I- labelled fibrinogen, which measures both thrombin activity generated by cell-plasma interaction and fibrin/fibrinogen binding to platelets and tumor cells. Each tumor cell line activates both the platelets and the coagulation system simultaneously resulting in the generation of thrombin or thrombin-like activity. The melanoma cells activate the coagulation system through “the extrinsic pathway” with a tissue factor-like effect on factor VII, but the breast tumor seems to activate factor X directly. Both tumor cell lines activate platelets to “make available” a platelet- derived procoagulant material necessary for the conversion of prothrombin to thrombin. The tumor-derived procoagulant activity and the platelet aggregating potential of cells do not seem to be inter-related, and they are not specific to malignant cells.

Keywords

Factor VIII - Age - Haemophilia - Carriers
 

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