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Cytochrome levels and activity in stored human platelets
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Cytochrome levels and activity in stored human platelets

Gerald Soslau
Archives of biochemistry and biophysics, v 215(2), pp 532-538
1982
PMID: 6284054

Abstract

Aspects of the cytochrome levels and function in stored human platelets were investigated. Platelets stored in a synthetic medium lose cytochrome c very rapidly with virtually all of the cytochrome c being lost by 3 days. Platelets aged in their homologous plasma, however, lose cytochrome c more slowly with a half-life of 7.3 days which is assumed to be more closely related to the in vivo situation. Cytochrome oxidase activity does not change in platelets stored up to 8 days in plasma. Oxygen consumption by platelets maintained in vitro drops slowing during the first 4 days of storage, however, by the fifth and sixth day the oxygen consumption drops dramatically and is accompanied by a reduction in coupling. The observed changes in the cytochrome levels and respiration are discussed with regard to platelet function and survival.

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