Why the study?
The effect of coagulation factor Xa on cardiac fibroblasts and the contribution of protease-activated receptors in factor Xa-induced cellular signalling had not been fully characterised.
Population
Human and rat cardiac fibroblasts
Comparison
FXa or TRAP-14 incubation with or without PAR silencing or SCH79797
Design
In vitro preclinical study
Follow-up
Up to 24 h
Authors
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Hypothesis-generating for FXa-PAR-1 inflammation in fibroblasts; in vivo studies needed before clinical relevance.
Coagulation factor Xa induces overexpression of proinflammatory genes in human cardiac fibroblasts via PAR-1 activation, highlighting a potential mechanism linking coagulation and cardiac inflammation/fibrosis.
D’Alessandro et al. (2021) studied this question.