title: Comparison of arterial and venous patency in a rat model of subendothelium-stimulated thrombosis.
abstract: The effectiveness of anticoagulants and platelet aggregation inhibitors was compared using comparable rat models of arterial and venous thrombosis. A mechanical endothelium-denuding injury was created on the lumenal surface of donor Lewis rat carotid arteries. These were cut into 4-5 mm lengths and grafted into femoral veins and arteries of recipient syngeneic rats using microvascular anastomotic techniques. Recipients received either systemic heparin, or aspirin with dipyridamole, or saline (control). In the arteries, the 1-day patency rate was 94% in the heparin-treated rats, but only 50% in the aspirin/dipyridamole group and 44% in the control group. The venous patency rate was 56% in the heparin group, 31% in the aspirin/dipyridamole group, and 0% in the control group. This unique model for comparing thrombosis in arteries and veins shows that anticoagulation is more effective than inhibition of platelet aggregation in the rat arterial system, with less of a differential effect in the venous system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53226, USA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hupkens
authors.forename: B C
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: Cooley
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000925:Anticoagulants / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001158:Arteries / Q000473:pathology; D001241:Aspirin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004176:Dipyridamole / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004730:Endothelium, Vascular / Q000503:physiopathology; D005268:Femoral Vein / Q000637:transplantation; D006493:Heparin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008297:Male; D010975:Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D051381:Rats; D011917:Rats, Inbred Lew; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D014654:Vascular Patency; D014680:Veins / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D000925:Anticoagulants; D010975:Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors; D004176:Dipyridamole; D006493:Heparin; D001241:Aspirin