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Neurosci Biobehav Rev ; 37(8): 1611-21, 2013 Sep.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23800745

ABSTRACT

The persistence of a depressive episode in coronary artery disease (CAD) patients not only heightens the risk of acute ischemic events, but it is also associated with accelerated cognitive decline. Antidepressant interventions for depression in CAD have only modest effects and novel approaches are limited by a poor understanding of etiological mechanisms. This review proposes that the platelet activating factor (PAF) family of lipids might be associated with the persistence of a depressive episode and related neurodegenerative pathology in CAD due to their association with leading etiological mechanisms for depression in CAD such as inflammation, oxidative and nitrosative stress, vascular endothelial dysfunction, and platelet reactivity. The evidence implicating PAFs in CAD, vascular pathology, and neurodegenerative processes is also presented. We also propose future directions for the investigation of PAFs as mediators of persistent depression. In summary, PAFs are implicated in leading mechanisms associated with depression in CAD. PAFs may therefore be associated with the persistence of depression in CAD and related to neurodegenerative and cognitive sequelae.


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Biomarkers/blood , Coronary Artery Disease/blood , Depressive Disorder/blood , Inflammation/blood , Nerve Degeneration/blood , Platelet Activating Factor/metabolism , Animals , Blood Platelets , Coronary Artery Disease/complications , Depressive Disorder/complications , Humans , Inflammation/complications , Nerve Degeneration/complications , Oxidative Stress , Signal Transduction
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Bioinformatics ; 29(2): 284-5, 2013 Jan 15.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23162086

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MOTIVATION: Establishing phospholipid identities in large lipidomic datasets is a labour-intensive process. Where genomics and proteomics capitalize on sequence-based signatures, glycerophospholipids lack easily definable molecular fingerprints. Carbon chain length, degree of unsaturation, linkage, and polar head group identity must be calculated from mass to charge (m/z) ratios under defined mass spectrometry (MS) conditions. Given increasing MS sensitivity, many m/z values are not represented in existing prediction engines. To address this need, Visualization and Phospholipid Identification is a web-based application that returns all theoretically possible phospholipids for any m/z value and MS condition. Visualization algorithms produce multiple chemical structure files for each species. Curated lipids detected by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Training Program in Neurodegenerative Lipidomics are provided as high-resolution structures. AVAILABILITY: VaLID is available through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Training Program in Neurodegenerative Lipidomics resources web site at https://www.med.uottawa.ca/lipidomics/resources.html. CONTACTS: lipawrd@uottawa.ca SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.


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Glycerophospholipids/chemistry , Search Engine , Algorithms , Computer Graphics , Databases, Chemical , Internet , Mass Spectrometry , Proteomics
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