title: Morphology of platelet Golgi apparatus and their significance after acute cerebral infarction.
abstract: Blood samples were harvested from the antecubital vein of 20 fasting patients with acute cerebral infarction at 1, 7 and 15 days after onset to prepare blood platelet suspension. Fasting antecubital vein blood was collected from an additional 20 normal adults as controls. Under transmission tron microscope, platelet Golgi tubules and vesicles became significantly thickened, enlarged, and irregular after acute cerebral infarction. Alpha granules in platelets significantly reduced in number, especially 1 day after cerebral infarction. Under immunoelectron microscopy, a few alpha granules aggregated around Golgi tubules and vesicles after infarction. These results suggested that platelet Golgi apparatus displayed significant morphological changes, which were possibly associated with enhanced synthetic and secretory functions of activated platelets after acute cerebral infarction. This study used Golgi apparatus blocking agent Brefeldin A to block Golgi apparatus in an aim to study the effects of Golgi apparatus on CD40L expression on the surface of activated platelets. Flow cytometry revealed that CD40L expression on activated platelet surfaces decreased significantly when Golgi apparatus was blocked, which indicated that Golgi apparatus participated in the synthesis and transport of CD40L to the platelet surface.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha 410011, Hunan Province, China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha 410011, Hunan Province, China.
authors.forename: Dong
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha 410011, Hunan Province, China.
authors.forename: Ranran
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tu
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha 410011, Hunan Province, China.
authors.forename: Zhiping
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Hu
keywords: Brefeldin A; CD40L; Golgi apparatus; alpha granules; brain injury; cerebral infarction; grants-supported paper; neural regeneration; neuroregeneration; platelet; secretion; transport; ultrastructure