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3137795

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-9-30
pubmed:abstractText
Nitroglycerin inhibits platelet aggregation in vitro and this effect may be important in its overall mechanism of action. In addition, its use has been associated with prolonged bleeding times and hemorrhagic complications. Despite these experimental and clinical observations, no significant antiplatelet effect of nitroglycerin has been observed ex vivo during intravenous nitroglycerin administration to patients. Because the in vitro antiplatelet effects of nitroglycerin have been shown by one of the investigators participating in this study to depend on the presence of sufficient stores of reduced intracellular thiol--which are readily depleted ex vivo by nitroglycerin in the formation of S-nitrosothiols--an attempt was made to unmask nitroglycerin-mediated inhibition of platelet aggregation by exposing platelets taken from patients treated with nitroglycerin to the reduced thiol N-acetylcysteine ex vivo. The obtained data demonstrate that platelets taken from patients treated with intravenous nitroglycerin manifest attenuated aggregation responses ex vivo when thiol stores are repleted. It is therefore proposed that the mechanism of action of nitroglycerin is mediated in part by its antiplatelet effect and that this effect depends on the adequacy of reduced intracellular thiol stores.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0002-9149
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
62
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
377-80
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1988
pubmed:articleTitle
Reduced thiols and the effect of intravenous nitroglycerin on platelet aggregation.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't