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Atherosclerosis | 1983

Effect of eicosapentaenoic acid on the platelet aggregation and composition of fatty acid in man. A double blind study.

Yuzo Nagakawa; Hajime Orimo; Michiyoshi Harasawa; Ikuo Morita; K. Yashiro; Sei-itsu Murota

Twelve volunteers (mean age, 60.7 +/- 4.2 years) were treated with placebo for the first week and then given partially purified eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA, 67% purity) at 2 g per day for 4 weeks. Significant decreases in ADP-, collagen- and adrenalin-induced platelet aggregation were observed at 2 and 4 weeks after EPA treatment, together with an increase in the plasma ratio of EPA to arachidonic acid and in platelet phospholipids. It was concluded that the administration of partially purified EPA was effective in decreasing platelet aggregation, possibly by changing the platelet ratio of EPA to arachidonic acid.


European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology | 1990

Effects of carvedilol on common carotid arterial flow, peripheral hemodynamics, and hemorheologic variables in hypertension

Yuzo Nagakawa; Yoko Akedo; Shiho Kaku; Hajime Orimo

SummaryThe effects of a beta-blocker, carvedilol, on peripheral hemodynamics and hemorheologic parameters were evaluated in 11 geriatric patients with essential hypertension [3 men and 8 women aged 62–79 years (mean, 68.6 years)]. Carvedilol was given orally after breakfast at a dose of 10 or 20 mg daily for 8 weeks. Peripheral hemodynamics, the common carotid arterial flow, and hemorheologic parameters were determined twice prior to administration and after 4 and 8 weeks of carvedilol treatment. The common carotid arterial flow was determined using the pulsed Doppler method. Peripheral hemodynamics were assessed by venous occlusion plethysmography. The hemorheologic parameters assessed include erythrocyte aggregation, erythrocyte deformability, plasma viscosity, whole-blood hematocrit, and platelet function tests. Erythrocyte aggregation was measured using an Erythrocyte Aggregometer MA-1 (Myrenne, USA), taking a high shear rate of 600 s\t-1 and a low shear rate of 3 s\t-1 as the indices. Statistical comparisons of values before and after carvedilol administration were made using the paired Studentst-test. Systolic and diastolic blood pressure were decreased by carvedilol. The common carotid arterial flow was increased, and peripheral hemodynamics were improved by carvedilol. Erythrocyte aggregation (measured at both a high and a low shear rate) and plasma viscosity were decreased, erythrocyte deformability was increased, and levels of circulating platelet aggregates were also improved by carvedilol. This improvement of hemorheologic variables may contribute to prevention of the initiation and progression of thrombosis and atherosclerosis in geriatric patients with essential hypertension.


Thrombosis Research | 1990

Effect of the combination of antiplatelet agents in man : Combination of aspirin, trapidil, ticlopidine and dipyridamole

Yuzo Nagakawa; Yoko Akedo; Hajime Orimo; H. Yano

An in vitro study of how platelet aggregation would be inhibited by the combination of aspirin or ticlopidine irreversibly inhibitory to platelet aggregation and trapidil or dipyridamole reversibly inhibitory, was carried out. The measured 50% inhibition concentrations indicated that aspirin was most inhibitory to collagen-induced platelet aggregation, followed by trapidil, ticlopidine and dipyridamole in decreasing sequence of inhibition. The combination of either aspirin or ticlopidine with trapidil inhibited platelet aggregation more intensely than the combination of either agent with dipyridamole. Thus, in clinical use of aspirin or ticlopidine, it may be expected that the lower dosage of aspirin or ticlopidine with lower frequencies of side effects inhibits platelet aggregation effectively with the combination of trapidil rather than dipyridamole.


Thrombosis Research | 1985

The anti-platelet effect of niceritrol in patients with arteriosclerosis and the relationship of the lipid-lowering effect to the anti-platelet effect.

Yuzo Nagakawa; Hajime Orimo; Michiyoshi Harasawa

A hypolipidemic agent, pentaerythritol tetranicotinate (niceritrol) yields nicotinic acid upon hydrolysis in vivo, but niceritrol is hardly soluble in distilled water, so that the effects of nicotinic acid on platelet aggregation in vitro were studied. Nicotinic acid inhibited in vitro platelet aggregation induced by ADP, collagen and adrenaline. Twenty patients (61.4 +/- 2.4 years (mean +/- S.E.)) with ischemic heart disease, cerebral infarction, transient cerebral ischemic attack and hypercholesterolemia were given niceritrol orally at 750 mg per day for 8 weeks. Significant decreases in ADP-, collagen- and adrenaline-induced platelet aggregation were observed at 4 and 8 weeks after niceritrol treatment. There was a significant correlation between the rates of changes in platelet aggregation and those in plasma total cholesterol or plasma LDL-cholesterol before treatment and 8 weeks following treatment. The results indicate that niceritrol has inhibitory effects on platelet aggregation not only caused by its direct action on platelet but mediated by its secondary action due to decrease in blood lipids.


Nippon Ronen Igakkai Zasshi. Japanese Journal of Geriatrics | 1980

Factors Influencing the Platelet Aggregation Test

Yuzo Nagakawa

動脈硬化性疾患を主とする各種疾患の固定した時期における患者および健常者において, 比濁法による血小板凝集能の測定値に影響を与える諸条件を検討した. すなわち採血および多血小板血漿 (以下PRPと略す) 分離から凝集計による測定までの時間による変化, stirrer の回転数, 凝集惹起物質の濃度変化, PRP中の血小板数, PRP作製の際の遠沈速度などによる影響について, 次の結果を得た.1) ADP, コラーゲン, アドレナリンによる血小板凝集において, 最大凝集能は採血後経時的に上昇し, 最大凝集能の1/2の凝集を示すまでの時間は経時的延長傾向, 解離度は経時的低下傾向を示した. ADPおよびコラーゲン凝集は採血後60~120分の間で, PRP採取後35分以上経過後に, またアドレナリン凝集は採血後90~180分の間で, PRP採取後45分以上経過後に安定していた.2) 棒状 stirrer の回転数を1,000, 2,000, 3,000rpmに変動させた場合回転数の上昇とともに3種の凝集惹起物質による最大凝集能は上昇した. 凝集惹起物質の濃度を低下させると最大凝集能は低下した. PRP採取のための遠沈速度に関し, 130gおよび200gで検討した結果低速の場合の方が凝集能は高値を示した. 凝集能の亢進が予想される疾患を対象とする場合正常値が低めであること, また各種疾患での測定値が高値あるいは低値にかたよることなく広く分布している方が測定に適するという見地から stirrer の回転数は1000rpm, PRP採取のための遠沈速度は200gで, ADP, アドレナリンの最終濃度はそれぞれ2×10-6M, 1×10-6Mが適し, コラーゲンの濃度では著者調整の2倍希釈液が適すると考えられた.3) PRPの血小板数の調整により凝集能は変動するが, 調整して得られた測定値は病態からへだたった現象をとらえる危険性があり, 補正しないPRPでの測定の意義は十分あると思われた.


Nippon Ronen Igakkai Zasshi. Japanese Journal of Geriatrics | 1980

Platelet Aggregation in Arteriosclerosis

Yuzo Nagakawa

動脈硬化性疾患において血小板凝集能の亢進の有無を吟味し, 血小板凝集能と凝固・線溶系, 血清脂質との関連を検討した. 対象は急性期をのぞく虚血性心疾患 (以下IHDと略す) および脳血栓症 (以下CTと略す) 140例とし, 健常者81例を対照とした. 血小板凝集能測定は第一報の結論に準じて行い, 血漿フィブリノーゲン (以下 Fbg と略す), ユーグロブリン溶解時間 (以下ELTと略す), 血清総コレステロール (以下TCと略す), 中性脂肪, βリポ蛋白, 遊離脂肪酸も同時に測定した. その結果, 動脈硬化性疾患においてADP, コラーゲン, アドレナリンの3種の凝集惹起物質による血小板凝集能のいずれもが亢進していることが明らかにされた. また血小板凝集能の指標として最大凝集能の値が最も有意な差違を示し, 比較する指標に適すると考えられた. 動脈硬化群の間でIHDとCT合併例で凝集能が最も亢進していることが示され, このことは動脈硬化の進展の高度なものほど血小板凝集能が亢進を示すものと推察される. ADP凝集と Fbg, 血清脂質との関連, アドレナリン凝集とTCとの関連が認められたが, コラーゲン凝集では Fbg, 血清脂質との関連が認められなかったことから凝集惹起物質の種類により凝固・線溶系, 血清脂質との関連に差違があると考えられた. 健常者に比べて動脈硬化性疾患では Fbg が増加していることも明らかにされた.


Nippon Ronen Igakkai Zasshi. Japanese Journal of Geriatrics | 1980

Platelet Aggregation and Fibrinolysis in Patients with Ischemic Heart Disease at Rest and after Exercise

Yuzo Nagakawa

虚血性心疾患における血小板凝集能の意義を明らかにする目的で安静時の血小板凝集能を検討すると共に, 運動負荷による血小板凝集能の変動の意義も検討した. 対象は急性期を除く心電図上虚血性変化を示す虚血性心疾患113例とし, 健常者81例を対照とした. 虚血性心疾患群をさらに次の4群, すなわち心筋梗塞群, 労作性狭心症群, 高血圧を伴うST低下群, 正常血圧を示すST低下群に分類して検討した. その結果, 虚血性心疾患においてADP, コラーゲン, アドレナリンの3種の凝集惹起物質による血小板凝集能が亢進していること, また虚血性心疾患群のうち, 特に心筋梗塞群においてその亢進が著明であることが明らかにされた. このことは冠硬化の進展の高度なものほど血小板凝進能は亢進を示すものと推察される. 虚血性心疾患20例, 健常者17例では坐位ペダルエルゴメーターを用いて, 運動負荷試験を行った. その成績では, 健常および虚血性心疾患の両群においてADPおよびコラーゲンの最大凝集能は負荷直後上昇し, 負荷終了後10分で負荷前の値に近づくが, アドレナリンの最大凝集能は負荷直後上昇し, 負荷後10分でも低下傾向を示さなかった. 負荷後に血小板および血漿フィブリノーゲンの上昇傾向, ユーグロブリン溶解時間の短縮傾向が健常および虚血性心疾患の両群において認められた. すなわち, 虚血性心疾患において血小板凝集能, 血漿フィブリノーゲンは運動負荷前にすでに上昇しており, 運動負荷によりさらに上昇することが明らかにされた.


Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation | 1991

Effect of idebenone on hemorheologic variables in geriatric patients with cerebral infarction

Yuzo Nagakawa; Yoko Akedo; Shiho Kaku; Hajime Orimo


The journal of Japan Atherosclerosis Society | 1982

Prostaglandin and Arteriosclerosis: Effects of Eicosapentaenoic Acid (EPA) on Platelet Aggregation, Bleeding Time, Fatty Acid Composition of Plasma and Platelet in Man

Yuzo Nagakawa; Hajime Orimo; Sei-itsu Murota; Ikuo Morita


Japanese Journal of Thrombosis and Hemostasis | 1984

One year follow-up on the effects of ticlopidine on platelet aggregation, other blood parameters and peripheral hemodynamics

Yuzo Nagakawa; Hajime Orimo; Michiyoshi Harasawa

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Health Science University

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Ikuo Morita

Tokyo Medical and Dental University

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Tokyo Medical and Dental University

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