Fig. 1.
Presence of suPAR in conditioned media of vascular cells. (A) suPAR was captured by immobilized anti-uPAR MoAb-R4 and subsequently detected by measuring the extent of uPA binding using a plasminogen activation assay. Recombinant suPAR was used to generate the standard curve (rate of plasmin formation; Vmax, mOD/min at 405 nm) against which the unknown samples were quantified. (B) The production of suPAR by HVSMC, HUVEC, HL-60, and U937 cells was measured under basal conditions (hatched bars) or after stimulation by PMA (100 ng/mL) (filled bars). Data are shown as ng/18 h/106 cells (mean ± standard error of mean [SEM] of triplicate wells) and similar results were observed in three separate experiments.