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The role of temperature and shear rate in the activation status of aggregating platelets and platelet microparticles (MPs) was investigated in a modified concentric-cylinder rotational viscometer. Whole blood anticoagulated with citrate was exposed to a range of shear rates typical of cardiopulmonary bypass circuits (0, 1000, 2000 and 4000 s-1) over four temperatures spanning hypothermic to mildly hyperthermic conditions (24, 30, 37 and 42°C) for short durations (100 s). Aliquots of blood were double-stained for CD41 (platelet GPIIb/IIIa) and CD62 (P-selectin). Platelets, platelet aggregates, MPs and red blood cell-platelet and -MP aggregates were identified by flow cytometry by acquiring only CD41-positive particles and differentiating on a plot of CD41 versus forward light scatter. The activation status of each particle was quantified by measuring CD62 expression (α-granule release). A degree of correlation between the shedding of MPs and the formation of platelet–platelet aggregates was observed for the data as a whole (r=0.85 for p<0.01), although this trend was not observed for a shear rate of 4000 s-1. The mean expression of CD62 on both platelets and MPs was maintained at a very low level for all temperature and shear rate combinations. There was, however, a number of very highly activated MPs associated with red blood cells at high shear rates.
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RHODES, N.P., SHORTLAND, A.P., RATTRAY, A. et al. Activation status of platelet aggregates and platelet microparticles shed in sheared whole blood. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine 8, 747–751 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018556427716
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