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Enhanced platelet functions have been reported in patients with diabetes mellitus. Our recent study demonstrated that phosphoinositide turnover is increased in platelets from diabetic patients. In the present study, we evaluated the abnormality in platelet intracellular calcium mobilization in patients with Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus using fura-2, a fluorescent calcium indicator. Washed platelets were prepared from six diabetic patients with increased platelet aggregation rates (DM-A group), seven diabetic patients with normal platelet aggregation rates (DM-B group), and eight age-matched healthy control subjects. The basal intracellular free calcium concentrations in platelets were similar among the three groups. Thrombin (0.025–0.1 U/ml) induced a dose-dependent increase in intracellular calcium in both the presence and the absence of extracellular calcium. This increase in the presence of extracellular calcium, which depends on calcium influx and release, was significantly higher in the DM-A group than in the DM-B and control groups. However, there was no significant difference between the control group and the DM-B group. In the absence of extracellular calcium, thrombin-induced calcium increase, which depends only on calcium release, was also significantly enhanced in the DM-A group. Furthermore, the calcium increase stimulated by platelet-activating factor (10 nmol/l) with and without extracellular calcium was significantly higher in the DM-A group than in the other groups. Additionally, calcium ionophore A23187 (100 nmol/l) caused a significantly higher calcium increase in the DM-A group with extracellular calcium, while the calcium increase without extracellular calcium showed no significant difference among the three groups. These observations suggest that enhanced intracellular calcium mobilization due to increased calcium influx and release may be closely related to platelet hyperfunctions in diabetes mellitus.
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Ishii, H., Umeda, F., Hashimoto, T. et al. Increased intracellular calcium mobilization in platelets from patients with Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus. Diabetologia 34, 332–336 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00405005
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