MicroRNA microarray of aortae from 10-week male Fbn1mgR/mgR and wild-type mice [10-week_miRNA]
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ABSTRACT: Thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAA) in Marfan syndrome, caused by fibrillin-1 mutations, are characterized by elevated cytokines and fragmentated elastic laminae in the aortic wall. This study explored whether and how specific fibrillin-1-regulated miRNAs mediate inflammatory cytokine expression and elastic laminae degradation in TAA. miRNA expression profiling at early and late TAA stages using a severe Marfan mouse model (Fbn1mgR/mgR) revealed a spectrum of differentially regulated miRNAs. Bioinformatic analyses predicted the involvement of these miRNAs in inflammatory and extracellular matrix related pathways. Complementing mRNA microarray demonstrated the upregulation of multiple pro-inflammatory cytokines and matrix metalloproteases. Correlation analyses between the altered miRNAs and mRNAs present miR-122, the most downregulated miRNAs in the TAA tissue of Fbn1mgR/mgR, to be a core regulatory miRNA to pro-inflammatory cytokines, Ccl2 and Il1b, which were upregulated in the TAA tissues. At 10 weeks, the number of differentially regulated miRNAs (>2-fold) increased to 129 with 5 down- and 124 upregulated miRNAs
ORGANISM(S): synthetic construct Mus musculus
PROVIDER: GSE199283 | GEO | 2022/05/21
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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