PLASMA DEGRADATION OF PLATELET-ACTIVATING-FACTOR IN SEVERELY ILL PATIENTS WITH CLINICAL SEPSIS
PLASMA DEGRADATION OF PLATELET-ACTIVATING-FACTOR IN SEVERELY ILL PATIENTS WITH CLINICAL SEPSIS
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DOI:
10.1097/00003246-199402000-00009
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发表时间:
1994-02-01
影响因子:
8.8
通讯作者:
TAYLOR, RR
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作者:
GRAHAM, RM;STEPHENS, CJ;TAYLOR, RR
Objective: To study the plasma degradation of platelet-activating factor in severely ill patients with clinical sepsis. Design: A prospective, nonrandomized control study. Setting: Intensive care unit in a university hospital. Patients: Thirteen critically ill male patients with clinical sepsis, due to medical or surgical illness, and ten normal male volunteers were studied. Measurements were repeated in seven patients who survived. Measurements and Main Results: The plasma activity of acetylhydrolase, the lipoprotein-associated enzyme that hydrolyses platelet-activating factor to its biologically inactive lyse-derivative was determined using an optimized enzyme assay. The plasma half-life of platelet-activating factor was also measured, along with phospholipase Pq, activity, lyso-platelet-activating factor, and serum lipid concentrations. Patient results were compared with those results of normal controls and followed once in survivors. Acetylhydrolase activity in the patient group was significantly lower than in normal subjects (median 34, interquartile range 17 to 54 nmol/min/mL vs. median 60, interquartile range 56 to 80 nmol/ min/mL;p