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  • Title: Effects of four types of reagents on ADP-induced aggregation and Ca2+ mobilization of bovine blood platelets.
    Author: Kitagawa S, Endo J, Kametani F.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1984 Apr 10; 798(2):210-5. PubMed ID: 6324876.
    Abstract:
    The effects of four types of reagents--a stimulant analog (ATP), reagents increasing cAMP (theophylline and (-)-isoproterenol), Ca2+ blockers (chlorpromazine, procaine, dibucaine and tetracaine) and nonspecific membrane-reactive reagents (n-butanol, n-hexanol and linoleate) - on ADP-induced Ca2+ mobilization and aggregation of platelets were investigated. All the reagents tested inhibited the aggregation. Of these reagents, those increasing cAMP and the stimulant analog inhibited the aggregation at least partly by inhibiting Ca2+ mobilization, whereas Ca2+ blockers and nonspecific membrane-reactive reagents must have inhibited the aggregation by different mechanisms, because they had: (1) no effect on ADP-induced Ca2+ mobilization, (2) accelerated it, or (3) themselves stimulated Ca2+ mobilization. The results showed that the inhibitory effects of Ca2+ blockers were at least partly due to competition with Ca2+ for binding sites on the outside of the membrane, whereas the effects of the nonspecific membrane-reactive reagents tested were due to membrane perturbation.
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