title: [Qi deficiency and blood stasis and circulatory renin-angiotensin system as well as plasminogen activator inhibitor activity in rats with cardiac qi deficiency syndrome].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the relationship between cardiac Qi deficiency Syndrome and effect of circulatory renin-angiotensin system (RAS) and endogenous fibrinolytic system in rats with heart failure (HF).
  
  
  METHODS
  Plasma RAS levels and plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI-1) activity were measured in 2 groups of rats: the sham-operated group (Group A) and the HF with Heart Qi deficiency Syndrome model group (Group B) established by making arteriovenous fistula. Using radioimmunoassay and chromatography, plasma renin activity (PRA) and angiotensin II (Ang II) levels and PAI-I activity were determined before, immediately after and 30 days after the surgical operation respectively.
  
  
  RESULTS
  After the operation was completed in Group B the left ventricular dysfunction revealed, left ventricular systolic pressure decreased and end diastolic pressure increased (P < 0.05), PRA and Ang II level and PAI-1 activity increased significantly, as compared with those in Group A and before modeling (P < 0.05). With cardiac function improved, the plasma PRA, Ang II level and PAI-1 activity lowered in Group B comparing with those immediately after modeling (P < 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The activation of RAS is associated with the endogenous fibrinolyticim balance, and play an important role in endogenous fibrinolytic system dysfunction in HF with Heart Qi deficiency Syndrome and Qi deficiency-blood stasis, which was helpful to explain that cause of hypercoagulant state in HF patients and increase the risk of suffering from embolism-thrombotic diseases, and might be the pathogenetic basis of Heart Qi deficiency induced Qi deficiency-blood stasis.
authors.affiliation: 202 Hospital of PLA, Shenyang 110003.
authors.forename: Q Y
authors.initials: QY
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: X P
authors.initials: XP
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: D X
authors.initials: DX
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000097:blood*; D008297:Male; D017395:Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor 1 / Q000378:metabolism*; D019413:Qi; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D012084:Renin-Angiotensin System / Q000502:physiology*; D016711:Yang Deficiency / Q000097:blood* / Q000503:physiopathology
chemical_list: D017395:Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor 1