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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: James Colston
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-5129 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Biochemical and biophysical research communications 20070116 2
Interleukin (IL)-18 is a cardiotropic proinflammatory cytokine chronically elevated in the serum of patients with cardiac hypertrophy (LVH). The purpose of this study was to examine the role of IL-18 in pressure-overload hypertrophy using wild type (WT) and IL-18 -/- (null) mice. Adult male C57Bl/6 mice underwent transaortic constriction (TAC) for 7days or sham surgery. Heart weight/body weight ratios showed blunted hypertrophy in IL-18 null TAC mice compared to WT TAC animals. Microarray analys ...[more]