Summary
Investigations were performed on the effects of chylomicrons on blood coagulation.
No clotting occurred when dog thoracic duct chylomicrons were substituted for the
platelets used in the measurement of thromboplastin generation time.
Hypercholesterolemic or normal dog serum was incubated for 3 hours with chylomicrons
to transfer 40% of the chylomicron phospholipids to serum lipoproteins. These sera
also did not decrease thromboplastin generation time.
Thromboplastin generation of plasma and whole blood clotting times of dogs on high
fat diets were not different than normal controls.