Comparison of the half-lives and regeneration rates of blood clotting factors II, VII, and X in anticoagulant-resistant and susceptible Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus Berk.)

Comp Biochem Physiol C Pharmacol Toxicol Endocrinol. 1999 Mar;122(3):307-16. doi: 10.1016/s0742-8413(98)10128-7.

Abstract

The half-lives and regeneration rates of clotting factors II, VII, and X in the plasma of anticoagulant-resistant and susceptible rats were determined. There is little or no difference in the half-lives of factors II and X in anticoagulant-resistant rats compared to susceptible rats, but the half-life of factor VII is longer in anticoagulant-resistant rats. In anticoagulant-resistant rats critical clotting factors appear to be carboxylated in preference to factor II, whereas the opposite occurs in susceptible rats; this may contribute to an animal's resistance status.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Anticoagulants*
  • Factor VII / biosynthesis
  • Factor VII / metabolism*
  • Factor X / biosynthesis
  • Factor X / metabolism*
  • Female
  • Half-Life
  • Male
  • Prothrombin / biosynthesis
  • Prothrombin / metabolism*
  • Rats
  • Rats, Wistar
  • Rodenticides*

Substances

  • Anticoagulants
  • Rodenticides
  • Factor VII
  • Prothrombin
  • Factor X