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| Type: | Thesis |
| Title: | Variability of nitric oxide signalling in atrial fibrillation: potential modulation. |
| Author: | Procter, Nathan Edward Kevin |
| Issue Date: | 2015 |
| School/Discipline: | School of Medicine |
| Abstract: | Understanding of the biochemical bases of thromboembolic risk in atrial fibrillation (AF) is incomplete. In a cohort of AF patients admitted to hospital, integrity of platelet nitric oxide (NO) signalling, and its modulation by dimethylarginines, myeloperoxidase, thrombospondin-1and thioredoxin-interacting protein, was investigated. This study identified that, (1) new onset AF is associated with impaired platelet NO response; (2) gender-specific platelet dysfunction exists in AF where females display increased platelet aggregability and impaired NO response compared to males; (3) plasma symmetric dimethylarginine correlated inversely with platelet aggregability in chronic AF patients. Abnormalities of NO signalling and its various determinants occur frequently in AF patients at risk of thromboembolism. |
| Advisor: | Horowitz, John David Chirkov, Yuliy |
| Dissertation Note: | Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Medicine, 2015 |
| Keywords: | Atrial fibrillation; platelet; aggregation; nitric oxide; asymmetric dimethylarginine; myeloperoxidase; thrombospondin-1; thioredoxin-interacting protein |
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