title: [Observation on the fluidity of human erythrocyte membranes in patients with blood stasis syndrome].
abstract: In order to approach the relationship between the TCM typology of blood stasis syndrome and the fluidity of human erythrocyte membrane, the fluidity of human erythrocyte membrane was examined in 14 healthy volunteers, 21 patients with coronary heart disease and 14 patients with cancer by measuring the degree of fluorescence polarization using DPH as a fluorescent probe. The patients with coronary heart disease and the cancer patients were all of the TCM typology of blood stasis syndrome. The results showed: (1) The fluorescence polarization (P) of normal group was 0.294 +/- 0.007, and the microviscosity (pi) was 3.656 +/- 0.237. (2) The P of the group of coronary heart disease with blood stasis syndrome was 0.328 +/- 0.013, and the pi was 6.787 +/- 1.028. Both were significantly higher than those of the normal group (P less than 0.05). (3) The P of the group of cancer with blood stasis syndrome was 0.333 +/- 0.011, and the pi was 6.698 +/- 1.357. Both were significantly higher than those of the normal group (P less than 0.05). (4) Yet no significant difference was noticed between the group of coronary heart disease and the group of cancer (P greater than 0.05). The higher the pi of erythrocyte membrane, the lower the fluidity of erythrocyte membrane. The lower fluidity of erythrocyte membrane in patients with blood stasis syndrome can result in the declined ability of erythrocytic deform which can accelerate the disturbance of microcirculation. This accords with the TCM theory about blood stasis syndrome.
authors: Q F
authors: QF
authors: Hu
authors: Z L
authors: ZL
authors: Chen
mesh_terms: D001809:Blood Viscosity; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000097:blood*; D004910:Erythrocyte Membrane / Q000378:metabolism*; D005454:Fluorescence Polarization; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D008560:Membrane Fluidity; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000097:blood