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Real-time in vivo imaging of platelets, tissue factor and fibrin during arterial thrombus formation in the mouse.

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This system provides high-speed, near-simultaneous acquisition of images of multiple fluorescent probes and of a brightfield channel that observed platelet deposition, tissue factor accumulation and fibrin generation after laser-induced endothelial injury in a single developing thrombus.
Abstract
We have used confocal and widefield microscopy to image thrombus formation in real time in the microcirculation of a living mouse. This system provides high-speed, near-simultaneous acquisition of images of multiple fluorescent probes and of a brightfield channel. Vascular injury is induced with a laser focused through the microscope optics. We observed platelet deposition, tissue factor accumulation and fibrin generation after laser-induced endothelial injury in a single developing thrombus. The initiation of blood coagulation in vivo entailed the initial accumulation of tissue factor on the upstream and thrombus–vessel wall interface of the developing thrombus. Subsequently tissue factor was associated with the interior of the thrombus. Tissue factor was biologically active, and was associated with fibrin generation within the thrombus.

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Accumulation of Tissue Factor into Developing Thrombi In Vivo Is Dependent upon Microparticle P-Selectin Glycoprotein Ligand 1 and Platelet P-Selectin

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Blood-borne tissue factor: Another view of thrombosis

TL;DR: It is suggested that blood-borne TF is inherently thrombogenic and may be involved in thrombus propagation at the site of vascular injury.
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Specific Synergy of Multiple Substrate–Receptor Interactions in Platelet Thrombus Formation under Flow

TL;DR: Hemodynamic forces and substrate characteristics define the platelet adhesion pathways leading to thrombogenesis.
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Targeted Gene Disruption Demonstrates That P-Selectin Glycoprotein Ligand 1 (Psgl-1) Is Required for P-Selectin–Mediated but Not E-Selectin–Mediated Neutrophil Rolling and Migration

TL;DR: Kinetics are consistent with a model in which PSGL-1 is the predominant neutrophil P-selectin ligand but is not a required counterreceptor for E- selectin under in vivo physiological conditions, and indicate that PSGL -1 is required for the early inflammatory responses but not for E–selectin–mediated responses.
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Molecular cloning of the cDNA for tissue factor, the cellular receptor for the initiation of the coagulation protease cascade

TL;DR: TF contains the uncommon tryptophan-lysine-serine (WKS) sequence repeated three times, a sequence the authors find in some serine protease-binding proteins and suggest may represent a functional sequence motif.
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Isolation of cDNA clones coding for human tissue factor: primary structure of the protein and cDNA.

TL;DR: The amino acid sequence deduced from the nucleotide sequence of the cDNAs indicates that tissue factor is synthesized as a higher molecular weight precursor with a leader sequence of 32 amino acids, while the mature protein is a single polypeptide chain composed of 263 residues.
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