Tissue factor and its procoagulant activity on cancer-associated thromboembolism in pancreatic cancer: Comment by Mackman et al

Cancer Sci. 2022 May;113(5):1885-1887. doi: 10.1111/cas.15276. Epub 2022 Feb 7.

Abstract

The Quantikine® ELISA detects tissue factor in cell lysates and culture supernatants containing extracellular vesicles from tissue factor-expressing cell lines but does not detect low levels of tissue factor antigen in plasma.

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Extracellular Vesicles* / metabolism
  • Humans
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms* / complications
  • Thromboembolism*
  • Thromboplastin / metabolism

Substances

  • Thromboplastin