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Endothelin-1 is a vascular hormone, which may play a role in the generation and maintenance of heart failure [ 18 ] . In hypertensive patients, doxazosin lowers von Willebrand factor commensurate with blood pressure, but it does not lower high levels of endothelin-1 while atenolol does [ 19 ] .
The identity and purity of these cultures was established by immunofluorescent staining as previously described [ 9 ] (in addition to the extensive characterization by Clonetics, we have determined that these cells lack von Willebrand factor and platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecules (PECAM), but are positive for cytokeratin, immunofluorescence and alkaline phosphatase activity).
The second platelet GP of interest is GPIbα, a transmembranous platelet GP (molecular weight, 143,000) that forms noncovalent complexes with GPIbβ, GPIX, and GPV to form the GPIb/IX/V receptor, which is involved in shear stress-induced platelet activation by binding to von Willebrand factor (vWF).
Cell identity and purity was determined as previously described [ 10 ] : all cells stained (by immunofluorescence) negative for von Willebrand factor, PECAM and anti-myosin, but were positive for cytokeratin.
vWF, von Willebrand factor