The thrombin-specific chromogenic substrate Tosyl-Gly-Pro-Arg-p-nitroanilide (Chromozym-TH) was purchased from Sigma (USA).
For the thrombin generation test, the following reagents were used: thrombin-specific fluorogenic substrate Z-Gly-Gly-Arg-AMC (Bachem, Switzerland); 7-amino-4-methylcoumarin, СаСl2, dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), and NaCl (Sigma-Aldrich, USA); thromboplastin (Renam, Russia); phosphatidylserine (from pig brain) and phosphatidylcholine (from egg yolk) produced by Avanti Polar Lipids Inc. (USA); and 4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-piperazine-2-ethanosulphonic acid (HEPES, Fisher Biotech, USA).
The calibrator for the determination of thrombin activity in the CAT test (ThrCal) was purchased from Thrombinoscope BV (the Netherlands) through Laborama (Russia).
Dabigatran (BIBR 953) was obtained from Selleckhem.com. HC-IOC-019s (C6H5-SO2-O-C6H4(CH3)-O-(CH2)2-NC5H4(NH2)) was synthesized at the Institute of Organic Chemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)33 (link). Pradaxa (dabigatran etexilate) (capsules 110 mg) was from Boehringer Ingelheim (Germany).
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