title: Dose-response aggregometry--contribution to the precise platelet function evaluation.
abstract: A method for the determination of blood platelet aggregability as the function of ADP concentration is described. Individual platelet aggregability was characterised by means of parameters of the sigmoidal relationship between the dose of the aggregating reagent and the aggregation curve amplitude. The method was applied to establish ADP-induced aggregability of various mammalian species. The aggregation curves of rabbit and rat platelets reached significantly lower maximum amplitudes than those of human and dog platelets. The eman concentration of ADP was significantly higher in dog platelets and the slope of the dose-response curve was significantly steeper in rat platelets compared to the other species studied. Some of the causes of individual intra-species ADP-induced aggregation variability revealed by means of dose-response aggregometry are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Experimental Pharmacology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Czecho-Slovakia.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Jancinová
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nosál
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Petríková
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004285:Dogs; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010974:Platelet Aggregation / Q000502:physiology*; D010979:Platelet Function Tests / Q000379:methods*; D011817:Rabbits; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013045:Species Specificity