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Thromb Haemost 1981; 46(04): 684-686
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1653452
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Schattauer GmbH Stuttgart

Factor IX Alloantibodies Shorten the Bovine Thromboplastin Coagulation Time of Normal Human Plasma

Karen Helene Ørstavik
The Institute of Medical Genetics, University of Oslo, Blindern, Oslo, Norway
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Received 28 June 1981

Accepted 10 September 1981

Publication Date:
05 July 2018 (online)

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Summary

We have previously demonstrated that neutralization of factor IX in normal plasma by heterologous antisera shortens the one stage prothrombin time determined with bovine thromboplastin. In this study, a similar effect of homologous antibodies was demonstrated. Addition of plasma from two patients with hemophilia B- and an acquired inhibitor to factor IX gave a shortening of the prothrombin time of plasma from normal persons, compared to the prothrombin time determined after addition of control plasma from a patient with hemophilia B- and no inhibitor. Addition of inhibitor plasma had a similar effect on the prothrombin time of plasma from four patients with hemophilia B+ and one patient with hemophilia Br, but had no effect on the prothrombin time of plasma from ten patients with hemophilia B-. Complexes between factor IX and the human inhibitor could be demonstrated both before and after the coagulation with bovine thromboplastin. These complexes were demonstrated as a factor IX antigen with a reduced electrophoretic mobility in crossed immunoelectrophoresis against a rabbit antiserum to factor IX. The results demonstrate that normal factor IX loses the ability to act as an inhibitor in the coagulation with bovine thromboplastin after having formed a soluble complex with a homologous antibody, although the factor IX molecules still have antigenic determinants which are free to react with the rabbit antibodies.

Keywords

Factor IX - Bovine thromboplastin - Alloantibodies
 

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