PMID: 2126320Jan 1, 1990Paper

Secretion of plasminogen activator inhibitor by normal rat pleural leukocytes in culture

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X Y LiK Donaldson

Abstract

The normal balance between coagulation and fibrinolysis in the pleural cavity is poorly understood despite the critical role of the pleura in the movement of the lungs. To determine the fibrinolytic activity and the interaction between plasminogen activators and their inhibitors in the normal pleural space, we tested normal rat pleural leukocytes, principally macrophages and mast cells, and their supernatants, for activity in an [125I]fibrin degradation assay. It was found that pleural leukocytes did not release plasminogen activator, but the leukocytes and their supernatants inhibited the plasminogen-dependent fibrinolysis caused by both alveolar leukocytes and mesothelial cells. Further experiments demonstrated that pleural leukocytes produce a protein inhibitor primarily against urokinase-induced fibrinolysis in culture and that macrophages are the main source of the inhibitor. The lysate of mast cell-enriched population exhibited high plasminogen activator activity while no such activity could be determined in macrophage-enriched lysate. These data show that normal rat pleural leukocytes contain plasminogen activator inside the cells and synthesize a urokinase-type plasminogen activator inhibitor in culture that may be impo...Continue Reading

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