The Tissue Factor Pathway: How It Has Become a “Prima Ballerina”
The Tissue Factor Pathway: How It Has Become a “Prima Ballerina”
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DOI:
10.1055/s-0038-1642646
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发表时间:
1995-07
影响因子:
6.7
通讯作者:
S. Rapaport;L. Rao
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作者:
S. Rapaport;L. Rao
In a historic monograph published in 1905 (1) (and translated into English in 1958 (2)), Paul Morawitz summarized the experiments of the 19th century that led to a theory of blood coagulation that involved the interaction of four factors. Three were present in plasma prothrombin, calcium ions and fibrinogen but the fourth, thrombokinase (today referred to as thromboplastin or, more commonly, as tissue factor (TF)), was believed to be contained within the platelets and leukocytes. When blood came into contact with wettable foreign matter like tissues or other surfaces, platelets and leukocytes were thought to agglutinate and liberate TF. The released TF then reacted with prothrombin in the presence of calcium ions to generate thrombin, which converted fibrinogen into the fibrin strands of the blood clot. Destroyed tissue cells were postulated to provide a second source of TF, which caused the blood to clot more rapidly at a wound site. By the middle years of the century as, one after another, new clotting factors were discovered, it became clear that blood coagulation could be initiated in at least two ways. The first was, as Morawitz had stated, the exposure of blood to TF, which has now been identified as a glycoprotein constitutively expressed on the surface of fibroblasts within and around blood vessels and on a variety o f other stromal and tissue cells strategically located throughout the body to protect against hemorrhage after tissue injury (3-5). The second was exposure of blood in vitro to a negatively charged surface such as glass, which triggers coagulation not by releasing TF but by activating the plasma protein, factor XII (Hageman factor) (6). By 1955 investigators at Oxford had advanced the concept of separate pathways an “extrinsic” pathway dependent upon TF and an “intrinsic” pathway independent o fT F -to the generation of thrombin (Bergsagel, quoted by Waaler (7)). This concept stemmed from an analysis of two observations. The first, as reported in the paper describing the one-stage prothrombin time test (8), was that patients with hemophilia had a normal prothrombin time. Adding a high concentration of TF to plasma bypassed not only the clotting defect of hemophilia A, factor VIII deficiency, but also the clotting defect of the then newly recognized hemophilia B, factor IX deficiency. The second observation was that patients with a much rarer hereditary disorder, factor VII deficiency, had a markedly prolonged prothrombin time yet their