wk 11, lec 1 Flashcards
what is hemostasis
prevent blood loss in damage and also prevents excessive clot formation
3 things for hemostasis
- Vasospasm
- Platelet activation and formation of platelet plug
- Activate coagulation cascade and form fibrin
5 steps of clot formation
- Injury exposes collagen and thromboplastin
- Recruit platelets to site of injury to form temporary plug
- Platelets release 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin) contraction and vasoconstriction
- Activate clotting cascade (because of collagen and thromboplastin) activate thrombin which converts fibrinogen to fibrin monomers
- Fibrin monomers polymerize and cross link to form definitive clot
serotonin (5-hydroxytrypatamine) role in clot foramtion
contraction and vasoconstriction
what initiates coagulation and forms early fibrin plug vs what amplifies coagulation and forms more stable fibrin plug
i..e 1st activated and later activated
- Extrinsic system: initiate coagulation and form early fibrin plug
o Activated first - Intrinsic system: amplify coagulation and form more stable fibrin plug
o Activated later
what are the 2 things the extrinsic system depends on
factor VIIa and TF (aka TPL and thromboplastin)
what do the intrinsic and extrinsic pathway lead to and via activation of what
final common pathway via activation of thrombin
how does thrombin get activated in final common pathway
o Factor Xa + factor Va + Ca2+
thrombin role in final common pathway
activate fibrin to stabilize clot
what are antithrombotic factors (ie.. inhibit platelet binding, secretion and aggregation)
Prostacyclin (PGI2), NO, ectoADPase/CD39
what are anticoagulant factors
Heparan proteoglycans, tissue-factor pathway inhibitor (TFPI), thrombomodulin
what is a firbonlytic enzyme
plasminogen activators
how does HSPG inhibit clotting
- Heparan sulfate proteoglycan (HSPG) activates antithrombin (which inhibits IIa, IXa, Xa, XIa, XIIa)
what does thrombomodulin activate to inhibit clotting
- Thrombomodulin activates protein C via thrombin (which inhibits Va, VIIIa)
where are platelet made
- Made by megakaryocytes in bone marrow
what regulates platelets? what is this increased by
o Regulated by thrombopoietin
Increased by IL-6 inflammation and low platelet #
structure of platelets
- Anucleate cell fragments with mitochondria, cytoskeleton, secretory granules, receptors
where are platelets stored
- 1/3 stored in spleen and released into circulation during hemorrhage
platelet lifespan
7-10 days
2 types of platelet granule
dense granules and alpha granule
what are platelet granules
- Pre loaded vesicles or endosomes that are released when platelets are activated
what are in dense granules of platelets
o ADP (activate platelets), Ca2+ (co-factor to activate c.c), serotonin (vasoconstrict), polyphosphate (substrate to activate c.c)
what are the most abundant type of granules in platelets
alpha granules
what are in alpha granules
o Von Willebrand factors (vWF), factor V, fibrinogen, growth factors (FGF, VEGF, PDGF)
o Adhesive glycoproteins
what are the 3 platelet glycoproteins and what do they bind
- GP Ib/IX- binds vWF
- GP Ia/IIa- binds collagen under the endothelium
- GPIIb/IIa –once activated; binds fibrinogen or vWF (stability of platelet plug)