Prevention of Platelet Adhesion and Aggregation by a Glutardialdehyde-Stabilized Heparin Surface

Summary

A stable heparinized surface was prepared by sequential treatment of polyethylene with water solutions of hexadecylamine hydrochloride, heparin and glutardialdehyde. In order to explain the “non-thrombogenic” properties of this surface, it was evaluated with regard to prevention of platelet adhesion and aggregation.

Human heparinized blood (2 and 10 IU/ml) with ⁵¹Cr-labelled autologous platelets was rotated for 60 minutes in untreated and heparin-treated circular tubings. The surface area/blood volume ratio was varied and an air-blood interface was present. In untreated tubings, platelet adhesion and aggregation increased in proportion to the size of the surface area/blood volume ratio, irrespective of the heparin concentrations of the blood. In the heparin-treated tubings, there was no measurable platelet adhesion to the surface and no platelet aggregation in the blood. The difference between the heparinized and the untreated surfaces with regard to platelet adhesion was discernible even after 10 minutes storage of stagnant blood.

It is concluded that platelet adhesion and aggregation induced by exposure of blood to a foreign surface in an in vitro experimental model can be prevented by a stable heparin coating of the surface.

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