CATHETER LOCK SOLUTION
CATHETER LOCK SOLUTION
NOTA is devising novel NO release intravascular (IV) catheter lock solutions that are capable of greatly decreasing risk of catheter infection and thrombosis.
NOTA is devising novel NO release intravascular (IV) catheter lock solutions that are capable of greatly decreasing risk of catheter infection and thrombosis.
Nitric oxide (NO) is a powerful and critically important molecule that is produced throughout our bodies. It acts as an antiviral, antimicrobial, anti-thrombotic, anti inflammatory, and vasodilatory agent, in addition to being an important messaging molecule that regulates brain function. NOTA is focused on developing novel NO delivery systems and applications that augment our own body's NO production for treating and preventing a wide variety of life-threatening illnesses and conditions.
What Nitric Oxide (NO) does
Nitric Oxide is widely found throughout nature in both the plant and animal kingdoms. Human evolution has resulted in our body’s production of nitric oxide (NO) as a major component of our immune systems and as a messaging molecule throughout the body. Previously known by scientists as an air pollutant, NO’s production by a wide variety of cells in our bodies was only discovered in the early 1990’s with the discovery in human physiology leading to a Nobel Prize in 1998.
Why does this small molecule play such a big and diverse role? NO’s broad range of applications
can be attributed to the molecule’s high reactivity and transient nature which causes its direct action to be highly localized and yet can be stabilized as a nitrosothiol and thus able to be transported throughout the body. As part of the immune systems it’s able to treat viral infection
by inhibiting viral replication, attack microbes, affect vasodilation to decrease hypertension, and treat viral infection by inhibiting viral replication.
Nitric oxide is a potent vasodilator, making it ideal for the treatment of hypertension. iNO is FDA approved for treatment of neonates with pulmonary hypertension. Studies have shown that the administration of iNO during lung transplantation can prevent primary graft failure (PGF), improve oxygenation, and reduce pulmonary hypertension. Due to its antiseptic properties, iNO has been proposed as a treatment for chronic airway infections, especially in diseases like CF, sinusitis, tuberculosis, and COPD where airway infections are common. When added to the sweep gas during open heart surgery and other extracorporeal circulation [ECC] applications, as it has been shown
to prevent both thrombosis and systemic inflammatory response syndrome by preventing platelet and white blood cell activation. iNO is a promising candidate for treatment across a variety
of applications.
NO Roles in the Body
Nervous System
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Neural protection
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Neuronal toxicity
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Neuronal development
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Neurotransmission
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Learning; Memory (LTP)
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Nociception
Immune System
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Innate immunity
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Cytotoxic chemical
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Superoxide radical quenching
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Cellular injury protection
Cardiovascular System
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Vasodilation
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Microvascular tone regulation
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Leukocyte adhesion
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Platelet aggregation/inhibition
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Microvascular permeability
Respiratory System
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Bronchial dilation
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Pulmonary vascular reactivity
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Alveolar-capillary membrane permeability
Urogenital System
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Reninsecretion
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Penile erection
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Fertilization
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Spermatogenesis, oogenesis, ovulation
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Endocrine System
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Posterior pituitary hormones gonadotropin hypothalamic
releasing factor
Excretory System
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Glomerular filtration
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Renal vasodilation
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Prevents renal endothelial cell dysfunction
