Nitric Oxide Therapies for Local Inhibition of Platelets' Activation on Blood-Contacting Surfaces.
dc.contributor.author | Amoako, Kagya Agyeman | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-01-26T20:03:57Z | |
dc.date.available | NO_RESTRICTION | en_US |
dc.date.available | 2012-01-26T20:03:57Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | en_US |
dc.date.submitted | en_US | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/89732 | |
dc.description.abstract | Blood-contacting devices interact with blood during their function much like the endothelium that modulates hemostasis. The surfaces of these devices however, lack endothelial-like properties, and consequently, upon blood contact, activate clotting factors to form clots. Systemic heparinization for inhibiting clot formation can cause bleeding and surface coatings show insignificant benefits. This research investigated nitric oxide (NO) production mimicry of the endothelium on artificial lungs (ALs) and pediatric catheters. Their surfaces were functionalized either by (1) entrapping NO donors inside their bulk, (2) incorporating catalysts to generate NO from NO-donors or (3) supplementing NO into sweep gas of artificial lungs. Pediatric catheters functionalized with NO-donor thin coats using method 1 is limited by short NO release duration. Method 2 has not been applied to large surface-area, low-flow devices like the AL. In this work NO-generating silicone membranes were synthesized and characterized to determine the relationship between surface properties, NO flux, and blood clotting time. These outcomes helped develop and optimize NO-generating gas-exchange silicone fibers that represent the majority of ALs surface area. The first NO-generating AL prototypes, using those fibers, were manufactured, incorporated into NO-generating circuits and tested for their non-thrombogenicity. To test for NO-release duration and non-thrombogenicity, catheters were fabricated to incorporate NO-donors inside their walls, characterized for NO flux and release duration by chemiluminescence, and tested for patency using a thrombogenicity model in rabbits. Methods 1-2 involve material modification using complicated and expensive chemical formulations and/or manufacturing. Method 3 however, functionalizes ALs by only adding NO into sweep gas. Decade-long anti-clotting testing using a wide range of NO concentrations has been conducted without knowledge of what concentration yields endothelial NO flux levels in the AL. This concentration was determined for the MC3 Biolung and the Terumo capiox rx25 ALs in vitro. All these ideas have shown positive results in short-term studies, and each may play a necessary role in inhibiting clot formation in future ALs. The sufficiency however, of each idea or of a combination for clot inhibition in long-term ALs remains to be determined. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.subject | Blood-biomaterial Interaction | en_US |
dc.subject | Artificial Lungs | en_US |
dc.subject | Catheters | en_US |
dc.subject | Nitric Oxide Inhibition of Clot Formation | en_US |
dc.subject | Surface Functionalization | en_US |
dc.subject | Nitric Oxide Release and Generation | en_US |
dc.title | Nitric Oxide Therapies for Local Inhibition of Platelets' Activation on Blood-Contacting Surfaces. | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreename | PhD | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreediscipline | Biomedical Engineering | en_US |
dc.description.thesisdegreegrantor | University of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Cook, Keith | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Bartlett, Robert Hawes | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | Bull, Joseph L. | en_US |
dc.contributor.committeemember | El-Sayed, Mohamed | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Biomedical Engineering | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Engineering | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/89732/1/kagyaa_1.pdf | |
dc.owningcollname | Dissertations and Theses (Ph.D. and Master's) |
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