酸化窒素による血小板活性化の急速な調節 in vivo
Andreas Schäfer1, Frank Wiesmann, Stefan Neubauer
1Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, UK.
Circulation
|April 7, 2004
まとめ
酸化窒素 (NO) 欠乏症は,ヒトの血小板を急速に活性化させ,心血管疾患のリスクを高めます. 外因的なNOを補充すると,血小板の機能を正常化し,NOを強調します.
科学分野:
- 心血管生理学 心血管の生理学
- ヘモスタシスとトランボシス
背景:
- 血小板活性化は,内皮機能不全に関連した心血管疾患の特徴です.
- 酸化窒素 (NO) の生物利用性と,体内での血小板活性化との正確な関係は,完全に理解されていません.
研究 の 目的:
- ヒトにおける急性NO合成阻害による血小板活性化の影響を調査する.
- 外因的なNOがNO阻害誘発の血小板活性化を逆転させることができるかどうかを判断する.
主な方法:
- 健康なボランティアは,血圧と血小板VASPリン酸化をモニターしながら,NO合成を阻害するためにN(G) -モノメチル-l-アルギニンを投与された.
- 血小板活性化は,フィブリノゲン結合とPセレクチン,グリコタンパク質53およびCD40リガンドの発現を測定することによって評価されました.
- NOのドナーであるグリセリルトリニトレートは,血小板機能に対する効果を評価するために投与されました.
主要な成果:
- NO合成の抑制により,血圧が上昇し,血小板VASPのリン酸化が低下し,NO経路の抑制が確認されました.
- フィブリノゲン結合とP-セレクチン発現を含む血小板活性化マーカーは,NO合成酵素阻害後に有意に増加しました.
- 言語下用グリセリルトリニトラート投与は,血小板VASPのリン酸化を正常化し,血小板活性化マーカーをベースラインレベルに逆戻した.
結論:
- ヒトにおける急性内生的なNO産生抑制は,in vivoで血小板活性化を迅速に誘発する.
- 外因的なNO投与は,NO抑制による血小板活性化を効果的に逆転させます.
- 活体における血小板機能は,窒素酸化物の生物利用性によって実証的かつ迅速に調節されます.
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