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  • Title: Chromogenic assay for the prothrombin activator ecarin from the venom of the saw-scaled viper (Echis carinatus).
    Author: Stocker K, Fischer H, Brogli M.
    Journal: Toxicon; 1986; 24(1):81-9. PubMed ID: 3082039.
    Abstract:
    Ecarin, by limited proteolysis and subsequent autocatalytic reactions, causes the conversion of prothrombin into three products with amidolytic activity: meizothrombin, meizothrombin 1 and lpha-thrombin. Ecarin action may be abolished by ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid and the activity of alpha-thrombin can, with a high degree of selectivity, be inhibited by heparin. Thus, ecarin potency may be assayed by measuring the meizothrombin activity generated by ecarin action on human plasma in the presence of heparin. The chromogenic substrate Tosyl-glycyl-L-prolyl-L-arginine-p-nitroanilide (Chromozym TH) is used in this assay.
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