ABSTRACT: This study attempts at investigating the changes in cardiac gene expression that occur in Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM). DCM in Dobermans and Boxers are the focus of this study. Control heart tissue as well as Pacing tissue used is from mongrel dogs. Keywords: control vs pacing vs disease; strain specific disease
Project description:This study attempts at investigating the changes in cardiac gene expression that occur in Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM). DCM in Dobermans and Boxers are the focus of this study. Control heart tissue as well as Pacing tissue used is from mongrel dogs. Keywords: control vs pacing vs disease; strain specific disease 3 Dobermans-DCM, 4 Boxers-DCM, 3 mongrels-control and 3 mongrels-pacing
Project description:Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a common cause of heart failure and a leading cause of cardiac transplantation in western countries. The robust predictive expression profile of cardiomyopathic and NF hearts as well as the functional classification can help to identify promising candidates for DCM and may improve the early diagnosis of cardiomyopathy. Keywords: disease state analysis
Project description:Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a common cause of heart failure and a leading cause of cardiac transplantation in western countries. The robust predictive expression profile of cardiomyopathic and NF hearts as well as the functional classification can help to identify promising candidates for DCM and may improve the early diagnosis of cardiomyopathy. Keywords: disease state analysis
Project description:Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is characterized by left ventricular dilation and continuous systolic dysfunction. Mitochondrial impairment is critical in DCM, but the mechanism remains to be elucidated. Here we explored the cardio-protective role of a heart-enriched long non-coding RNA (lncRNA), named dilated cardiomyopathy repressive transcript (DCRT), via maintaining mitochondrial function. We found the lncRNA DCRT was highly enriched in normal heart tissue and its expression was significantly down-regulated in myocardium of DCM patients. DCRT knockout in mice spontaneously developed cardiac dysfunction with cardiac enlargement and mitochondrial impairment. DCRT transgenic or overexpressed mice attenuated cardiac dysfunction induced by transverse aortic constriction (TAC) treatment.
Project description:End stage heart failure due to ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM) and dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) have similar characteristics, enlargement of the ventricles, relatively thin-walled ventricle, which leads to a limited contraction force and blood loading. Nevertheless, the response for present therapeutics is very variable and the prognosis is still very bad for ICM and DCM in general. Thus, the ability to differentiate the etiologies of heart failure based structural and physiological changes of the heart would be a step forward to enhance the specificity and the success of given therapy.
Project description:Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) affects both humans and dogs and is associated with shortened life-span and sudden death. Dobermanns have previously been described with genetic variants assoociated with disease, and in this study we wanted to study gene specific expression differences between healthy and DCM-affected individuals. Included in the cohort were nine dogs, four healthy and five clinical and pre-clinical cases. The cases were sampled shortly after death (within 30 minutes) and samples snap-frozen from different compartments of the heart. Prior to euthanization the dogs were evaluted by ultrasound, and histological evaluation of the tissues were also performed after tissue sampling for proper phenotyping. In this study tissues from the septal wall was used for mRNA-sequencing. The samples were prepared according to Illuminas protocol for library preparation (TruSeq® Stranded mRNA Library) and sequenced on an Illumina NextSeq 550. Following basecalling at Illumina BaseSpace FASTQ-files were proceessed through a pipeline of Trimmomatic, SortMeRNA, STAR, edgeR and DESeq2, with quality controlls in between at relevant steps with FastQC. No significantly differentially expressed genes could be identified with either edgeR or DESeq2, which may be due to too few samples in each group. The sequencing data was also used for visual inspection of potential splice variants associated with genetic variants identified in an other cohourt of DCM-affected Dobermanns evaluated with GWAS. A novel splice-variant identified in RNF207 causing a frame-shame shift excluding three codons, was confirmed in the present mRNA-seq data.
Project description:To investigate the physiological characteristics of cardiac fibroblasts (CF) from pediatric dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) patients, CFs were harvested from left ventricular free wall at the heart transplantation. We then performed RNA-seq for 7 different lines of CFs.
Project description:We aimed to identify aberrantly expressed microRNA and mRNA expression profiles of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and explore their potential functions, 10 DCM blood samples and paired healthy control blood samples underwent RNA-sequence.