TY - GEN AU - Maha Mohamed Saber Khalil AU - AbdelFattah Hassan marrie , AU - Haider Abbas Ghaleb , AU - Sherif Mokhtar , TI - Pharmacogenomics of thrombolytic therapy effect of gene polymorphisms on response to streptokinase in patients with acute myocardial infarction / PY - 2006/// CY - Cairo : PB - Maha Mohamed Saber Khalil , KW - ACE I / D gene KW - Fibrinogen gene KW - PAI - 1 gene KW - Pharmacogenomics KW - Platelet receptor gene KW - Thrombolytic therapy N1 - Thesis (PH.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty Of Medicine - Department Of Pharmacology; Issued also as CD N2 - This study is an attempt to assess the possible effect of 4 different gene polymorphisms on patient's response to streptokinase after acute myocardial infarctionTo achieve this goal , we studied 63 patients with acute anterior myocardial infarction (mean age : 543 ± 972 years , range : 34 - 76 years) , Besides clinical relief of chest pain , patients' response to thrombolytic therapy was evaluated using ST - segment elevation both on admission and 2 hours following SK administrationWe used the ST - segment resolution for assessment of responseFifty percent STR was considered as a sign of effective reperfusionFor each patient DNA was extracted from a peripheral blood sampleFor each gene polymorphism we used the specific primers for Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) - technique : Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) followed by the specific restriction enzymeOut of the 63 pts studied for ACE insertion / deletion genotyping , fifty percent STR was most frequently observed in 100 ER -