ArticleJournal of translational medicine2017
Hyperglycemia enhances arsenic-induced platelet and megakaryocyte activation.
Article in Journal of translational medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
5 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.
- Activated Platelets Induce Endothelial Cell Inflammatory Response in Psoriasis via COX-1.Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology · 2020Trial
- Analyzing the non-linear relationship between fasting blood glucose levels and Gensini score in patients with STEMI.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2024Article
- A Clinical Perspective on Arsenic Exposure and Development of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease.Cardiovascular drugs and therapy · 2023Review
- Antiplatelet Effects of Clopidogrel Vs Aspirin in Virologically Controlled HIV: A Randomized Controlled Trial.JACC. Basic to translational science · 2022Article
- Targeting Platelet in Atherosclerosis Plaque Formation: Current Knowledge and Future Perspectives.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
objectiveLow to moderate inorganic arsenic (iAs) exposure is independently associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD), particularly for patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). The mechanism of increased CVD risk from iAs exposure in DM has not been adequately characterized. We evaluated whether increasing concentrations of glucose enhance the effects of iAs on platelet and megakaryocyte activity, key steps in atherothrombosis.
methodsHealthy donor whole blood was prepared in a standard fashion and incubated with sodium arsenite in a range from 0 to 10 µM. iAs-induced platelet activation was assessed by platelet receptor CD62P (P-selectin) expression and monocyte-platelet and leukocyte-platelet aggregation (MPA and LPA, respectively) in the presence of increasing sodium arsenite and glucose concentrations. Megakaryocyte (Meg-01) cell adhesion and gene expression was assessed after incubation with or without iAs and increasing concentrations of D-glucose.
resultsPlatelet activity markers increased significantly with 10 vs. 0 µM iAs (P < 0.05 for all) and with higher D-glucose concentrations. Platelet activity increased significantly following co incubation of 1 and 5 µM iAs concentrations with hyperglycemic D-glucose (P < 0.01 for both) but not after incubation with euglycemic D-glucose. Megakaryocyte adhesion was more pronounced after co incubation with iAs and hyperglycemic than euglycemic D-glucose, while gene expression increased significantly to iAs only after co incubation with hyperglycemic D-glucose.
conclusionWe demonstrate that glucose concentrations common in DM potentiate the effect of inorganic arsenic exposure on markers of platelet and megakaryocyte activity. Our results support recent observational cohort data that DM enhances the vasculotoxic effects of arsenic exposure, and suggest that activation of the platelet-megakaryocyte hemostatic axis is a pathway through which inorganic arsenic confers atherothrombotic risk, particularly for patients with DM.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.