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ArticleJournal of veterinary internal medicine2023

Circulating neutrophil extracellular traps in cats with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and cardiogenic arterial thromboembolism.

Ronald H L Li, Arianne Fabella, Nghi Nguyen, Joanna L Kaplan, Eric Ontiveros, Joshua A Stern

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Article in Journal of veterinary internal medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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14citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ronald H L LiDepartment of Surgical and Radiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3325-2744
Arianne FabellaVeterinary Medical Teaching Hospital, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA.
Nghi NguyenDepartment of Surgical and Radiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA.
Joanna L KaplanDepartment of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA.
Eric OntiverosDepartment of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA.
Joshua A SternDepartment of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA.
University of California, Davis · USVeterinary Medical Teaching Hospital · US

Funding

Morris Animal Foundation D20FE-805
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundCats with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) are at risk of cardiogenic arterial thromboembolism (CATE). Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) may be a potential biomarker and therapeutic target for cardiomyopathy in cats. HYPOTHESIS/

objectivesCharacterize NETs in cats with HCM or CATE. We hypothesized that circulating NETs assessed in the form of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) and citrullinated histone H3 (citH3) are increased in cats with HCM and CATE and associated with reported predisposing factors for thrombus formation. ANIMALS: Eighty-five cats including client-owned cats with HCM and CATE and staff- and student-owned clinically healthy cats without HCM.

methodsAfter echocardiographic evaluations, NETs were measured as cfDNA and citH3.

resultsCats with CATE had significant increases in cfDNA (11.2 ng/μL; interquartile range [IQR], 8.1 to 29.6) compared to those without HCM (8.2 ng/μL; IQR, 5.7 to 11.7 μL; P = .01) and were responsible for 75% to 83% of cases with cfDNA fragments sized 100 to 2000 base pairs. Citrullinated histone 3, detected in 52% of cats with HCM (31.1 ng/mL; IQR, 16.9 to 29.8), was significantly lower than in those with CATE (48.2 ng/mL; IQR, 34.2 to 60.2; P = .007). The citH3 concentrations correlated significantly with reported risk factors of CATE, such as left atrial auricular velocity. CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL IMPORTANCE: Neutrophil extracellualr traps, especially citH3, are increased in cats with HCM and CATE. They may serve as a novel therapeutic target and biomarker of thrombosis in cats with HCM.

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Cardiomyopathy, HypertrophicCat DiseasesExtracellular TrapsThromboembolismAnimalsBiomarkersCatsHistonesNeutrophilsBiomarkersHistonescell-free DNAfragment sizeNETosispeptidyl arginine deiminase 4

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PMID36951591
PMCPMC10061180
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