Hemostatic factors in rabbit limb lymph: relationship to mechanisms regulating extravascular coagulation

The American Journal of Physiology
D T LeS I Rapaport

Abstract

Mechanisms regulating extravascular coagulation in interstitial fluids of peripheral tissues are poorly understood, since measurements of hemostatic factors in these fluids are unavailable. Because lymph from a body region reflects the composition of its interstitial fluid, we measured hemostatic factors in limb lymph of rabbits both as activity and as antigen. Mean lymph-to-plasma activity ratios were the following: fibrinogen, 0.28; prothrombin, 0.26; factor X, 0.27; factor VII, 0.17; and factors V and VIII, 0.08. All lymph fibrinogen was clottable; fibrin degradation products were absent. Lymph von Willebrand factor antigen was < 10% of plasma antigen and consisted primarily of lower molecular weight multimers. Mean lymph-to-plasma activity ratio for antithrombin was 0.38 and for tissue factor pathway inhibitor the ratio was 0.40. Low levels of antithrombin-factor Xa were measurable in lymph. The data are compatible with a basal factor VIIa-tissue factor-catalyzed extravascular activation of factor X that is prevented from progressing to generation of fibrin in limb interstitial fluid and lymph by low levels of factor VIII and factor V and by the inhibitory activity of antithrombin and tissue factor pathway inhibitor.

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