Bioengineering of a human innervated cardiac muscle model
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ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE232464 | GEO | 2024/03/31
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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Project description:Maternal diabetes is a recognized risk factor for both short-term and long-term complications in offspring. Beyond the direct teratogenicity of maternal diabetes, the intrauterine environment can influence offspring cardiovascular health. Abnormalities in the cardiac sympathetic system are implicated in conditions such as sudden infant death syndrome, cardiac arrhythmic death, heart failure, and certain congenital heart defects in children from diabetic pregnancies. However, the mechanisms by which maternal diabetes affect the development of the cardiac sympathetic system and consequently, heightening health risks and predisposing to cardiovascular disease remain poorly understood. In this study, we present a comprehensive analysis of the combined impact of a Hif1a-deficient sympathetic system and the maternal diabetes environment on both heart development and the formation of the cardiac sympathetic system. The synergic negative effect of exposure to maternal diabetes and Hif1a deficiency resulted in the most pronounced deficit in cardiac sympathetic innervation and the development of adrenal medulla. Abnormalities in the cardiac sympathetic system were accompanied by a smaller heart, reduced ventricular wall thickness, dilated subepicardial veins, and coronary arteries in the myocardium, along with anomalies in the branching and connections of the main coronary arteries. Transcriptional profiling by RNA-seq revealed significant transcriptome changes in Hif1a-deficient sympathetic neurons, primarily associated with cell cycle regulation, proliferation, and mitosis, explaining the shrinkage of the sympathetic neuron population. Our data demonstrate that a failure to adequately activate HIF-1α regulatory pathway, particularly in the context of maternal diabetes, may contribute to abnormalities in the cardiac sympathetic system. In conclusion, our findings indicate that the interplay between deficiencies in the cardiac sympathetic system and subtle structural alternations in the vasculature, microvasculature, and myocardium during heart development not only increases the risk of cardiovascular disease but also diminishes the adaptability to the stress associated with the transition to extrauterine life, thus, increasing the risk of neonatal death.
2024-02-29 | GSE250606 | GEO
Project description:The cardiac autonomic nervous system is crucial in controlling cardiac function, such as heart rate and cardiac contractility, and is divided into sympathetic and parasympathetic branches. Normally, there is a balance between these two branches to maintain homeostasis. However, cardiac disease states such as myocardial infarction, heart failure, and hypertension can induce the remodeling of cells involved in cardiac innervation, which is associated with an adverse clinical outcome. Although there are vast amounts of data for the histological structure and function of the cardiac autonomic nervous system, its molecular biological architecture in health and disease is still enigmatic in many aspects. Novel technologies such as single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) hold promise for the genetic characterization of tissues at single-cell resolution. However, the relatively large size of neurons may impede the standardized use of these techniques. Here, this protocol exploits droplet-based single-nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq), a method to characterize the biological architecture of cardiac sympathetic neurons in health and disease. A stepwise approach is demonstrated to perform snRNA-seq of the bilateral superior cervical (SCG) and stellate ganglia (StG) dissected from adult mice. This method enables long-term sample preservation, maintaining an adequate RNA quality when samples from multiple individuals/experiments cannot be collected all at once within a short period of time. Barcoding the nuclei with hashtag oligos (HTOs) enables demultiplexing and the trace-back of distinct ganglionic samples post sequencing. Subsequent analyses revealed successful nuclei capture of neuronal, satellite glial, and endothelial cells of the sympathetic ganglia, as validated by snRNA-seq. In summary, this protocol provides a stepwise approach for snRNA-seq of sympathetic extrinsic cardiac ganglia, a method that has the potential for broader application in studies of the innervation of other organs and tissues.
2023-05-15 | GSE232286 | GEO
Project description:Background: Pathogenic variants of GNB5 encoding the 5 subunit of the guanine nucleotide-binding protein cause IDDCA syndrome, an autosomal recessive neurodevelopmental disorder associated with cognitive disability and cardiac arrhythmia, particularly severe bradycardia. Methods: We used echocardiography and telemetric ECG recordings to investigate consequences of Gnb5 loss in mouse. Results: We delineated a key role of Gnb5 in heart sinus conduction and showed that Gnb5-inhibitory signaling is essential for parasympathetic control of heart rate and maintenance of the sympatho-vagal balance. Gnb5-/- mice were smaller and had a smaller heart than Gnb5+/+ and Gnb5+/-, but exhibited better cardiac function. Lower autonomic nervous system modulation through diminished parasympathetic control and greater sympathetic regulation, resulted in a higher baseline heart rate in Gnb5-/- mice. In contrast, Gnb5-/- mice exhibited profound bradycardia upon treatment with Carbachol, while sympathetic modulation of the cardiac stimulation was not altered. Concordantly, transcriptome study pinpointed altered expression of genes involved in cardiac muscle contractility in atria and ventricles of knocked-out mice. Homozygous Gnb5 loss resulted in significantly higher frequencies of sinus arrhythmias. Moreover, we described thirteen affected individuals, increasing the IDDCA cohort to 44 patients. Conclusions: Our data demonstrate that loss of negative regulation of the inhibitory G-protein signaling causes heart rate perturbations in Gnb5-/- mice, an effect mainly driven by impaired parasympathetic activity. We anticipate that unraveling the mechanism of Gnb5-signaling in the autonomic control of the heart will pave the way for future drug screening.
2020-11-30 | GSE156898 | GEO
Project description:Aging is a major risk factor for impaired cardiovascular health. The aging myocardium is characterized by microcirculatory and diastolic dysfunction and increased susceptibility to arrhythmias. Nerves align with vessels during development. However, the impact of aging on the cardiac neuro-vascular interface is entirely unknown. Here, we report that aging reduces nerve density specifically in the left ventricle and dysregulates vascular-derived neuro-regulatory genes. Aging leads to a down-regulation of miR-145 and de-repression of the neuro-repulsive factor Semaphorin-3A. miR-145 deletion, which increased Sema3a expression, or endothelial Sema3a overexpression reduced axon density, thus mimicking the observed aged heart phenotype. Removal of senescent cells, which accumulated with chronological age in parallel to the decline in nerve density, rescued age-induced denervation, reduced Sema3a expression, preserved heart rate variability and reduced electrical instability. These data suggest that senescence-associated regulation of neuro-regulatory genes is associated with reduced nerve density and, thereby, contributes to age-associated cardiac dysfunction.
2023-07-05 | E-MTAB-13093 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Particulate Matter Triggers Carotid Body Dysfunction, Respiratory Dysynchrony and Cardiac Arrhythmias in Mice with Cardiac Failure; The mechanistic link between human exposure to airborne particulate matter (PM) pollution and the increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality observed in people with congestive heart failure (CHF) is unknown. We now show that exposure of genetically-engineered mice with CHF (expressing a cardiac-specific CREB mutant transcription factor) to ambient PM (collected in Baltimore, mean aerodynamic diameter 1.9 um) unmasks severe autonomic morbidities manifested as significant reductions in heart rate variability, respiratory dysynchrony and increased frequency of serious ventricular arrhythmias, features not observed in PM-challenged wild type mice without CHF. PM exposure in CREB mice with CHF reflexly triggers autonomic dysfunction via heightened carotid body function as evidenced by pronounced afferent nerve responses to hypoxia and marked depression of breathing by hyperoxia challenge. Genomic analyses of lung and ventricular tissues revealed PM-induced molecular signatures of inflammation and oxidative stress. These findings in a murine model of cardiac failure provide the first direct assessment of autonomic function in response to PM challenge and are highly consistent with current epidemiologic findings on cardiovascular morbidity in susceptible PM-exposed human populations. We utilized a murine model of dilated cardiomyopathy to address potential mechanistic links between PM exposure and the development of life-threatening cardiac dysrhythmias. Experiment Overall Design: four group (n=3) of animals were treated by PBS or particulate matter (20mg/kg 1.9µm particulate matter) in Wild type or CD-1 dominate negative mice
2009-08-15 | E-GEOD-17478 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Background: Current stress cardiomyopathy (SCM) has a high incidence in older adults, and the theories revolve mostly around "catecholamine myocardial toxicity" and "sympathetic hyperactivation". However, the role of the central nervous system (CNS) in the pathogenesis of stress cardiomyopathy remains unknown. Methods: We investigated the role of microglia activation in the paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus (PVN) in the development of SCM. To create a SCM model, male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were immobilized for 6 hours every day for a week. Electrocardiogram, cardiac electrophysiology, and echocardiography were measured to verify the changes in cardiac structure and function in rats with stress cardiomyopathy. RNA sequencing was measured to explore the changes in the hypothalamus of stress cardiomyopathy. In addition, brain and heart tissues were extracted to detect microglial activation and sympathetic activity. Results: (1) Immobilization stress successfully induced SCM in SD rats. (2) Microglia were significantly activated in the hypothalamus, as evidenced by cytosol thickened and an increased in the number of branches and specifically enriched at PVN. (3) In SCM, microglia in the PVN increased central and peripheral cardiac sympathetic activity by increasing the expression of neuroinflammatory factors. (4) It is possible that inhibiting microglia activation could suppress central and heart sympathetic activity and increase the cardiac electrical stability in SCM rats. Conclusions: Immobilization stress induced SCM in SD rats can activate hypothalamic microglia, and the activated microglia are specifically enriched at PVN, which can increase the central and peripheral sympathetic nerve activity by regulating the expression of neuro-inflammatory factor, mediate left heart dysfunction and increase the susceptibility to ventricular fibrillation.
2024-04-01 | GSE261833 | GEO
Project description:Particulate Matter Triggers Carotid Body Dysfunction, Respiratory Dysynchrony and Cardiac Arrhythmias in Mice with Cardiac Failure The mechanistic link between human exposure to airborne particulate matter (PM) pollution and the increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality observed in people with congestive heart failure (CHF) is unknown. We now show that exposure of genetically-engineered mice with CHF (expressing a cardiac-specific CREB mutant transcription factor) to ambient PM (collected in Baltimore, mean aerodynamic diameter 1.9 um) unmasks severe autonomic morbidities manifested as significant reductions in heart rate variability, respiratory dysynchrony and increased frequency of serious ventricular arrhythmias, features not observed in PM-challenged wild type mice without CHF. PM exposure in CREB mice with CHF reflexly triggers autonomic dysfunction via heightened carotid body function as evidenced by pronounced afferent nerve responses to hypoxia and marked depression of breathing by hyperoxia challenge. Genomic analyses of lung and ventricular tissues revealed PM-induced molecular signatures of inflammation and oxidative stress. These findings in a murine model of cardiac failure provide the first direct assessment of autonomic function in response to PM challenge and are highly consistent with current epidemiologic findings on cardiovascular morbidity in susceptible PM-exposed human populations. We utilized a murine model of dilated cardiomyopathy to address potential mechanistic links between PM exposure and the development of life-threatening cardiac dysrhythmias.
2009-08-10 | GSE17478 | GEO
Project description:<p>The clinical picture of autonomic failure is dominated by disabling orthostatic hypotension. Recent developments in the understanding of the underlying pathophysiology of the discrete clinical forms of autonomic failure have revealed that participants with multiple system atrophy (MSA) are characterized by impairment of central autonomic pathways crucial for autonomic cardiovascular control, but have intact peripheral postganglionic noradrenergic fibers. Participants with MSA have peripheral residual sympathetic tone that is no longer modulated by central autonomic centers and is not under baroreflex control and, therefore, cannot be harnessed to improve their orthostatic hypotension. On the other hand, participants with pure autonomic failure (PAF) and with Parkinson' s disease (PD) are characterized by neurodegeneration and loss of peripheral noradrenergic fibers, as evidenced by low levels of plasma norepinephrine and absent cardiac uptake of labeled catechols. Pharmacological inhibition of the norepinephrine transporter (NET) is an example of an approach that can take advantage of the participants' own residual sympathetic tone. NET inhibition will increase synaptic norepinephrine that is tonically released in MSA participants by preventing its reuptake. This should result in an increase in blood pressure. </p> <p>This is a longitudinal study of 50 participants, age 18-80 years with neurogenic orthostatic hypotension associated with impaired reflexes. The purpose of this study is to determine if the magnitude of the pressor response to atomoxetine at study entry, will be useful as a biomarker to differentiate those participants that will ultimately be shown to have pre-ganglionic (central) lesions (MSA) with those shown to have post ganglionic (peripheral) lesions (PAF and PD). </p>
| phs001595 | dbGaP
Project description:We deciphered Ago2:RNA interactions in post-mortem human heart tissues using crosslinking immunoprecipitation coupled with high-throughput sequencing (HITS-CLIP) to generate the first transcriptome-wide map of miR targeting events in human myocardium, detecting 4000 cardiac Ago2 binding sites across >2200 target transcripts. Profiling AGO2-associated RNAs in cardiac tissues obtained from 6 donors with heart diseases of differing etiologies
2016-08-09 | E-GEOD-83410 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Alterations in autonomic function are known to occur in cardiac conditions including sudden cardiac death. Cardiac stimulation via sympathetic neurons can potentially trigger arrhythmias. Dissecting direct neural-cardiac interactions at the cellular level is technically challenging and understudied due to the lack of experimental model systems and methodologies. Here we demonstrate the utility of optical interrogation of sympathetic neurons and their effects on macroscopic cardiomyocyte network dynamics to address research targets such as the effects of adrenergic stimulation via the release of neurotransmitters, the effect of neuronal numbers on cardiac wave behaviour and the applicability of optogenetics in mechanistic in vitro studies. We present novel methodologies to study neuron-cardiomyocyte interactions involving optogenetic selective probing and all-optical electrophysiology to measure electrical activity in an automated fashion, illustrating the power and high-throughput capability of such interrogations. We present new findings on how neurons impact cardiac macroscopic wave properties, the links between neuron density and cardiac firing rates as well as the challenges and benefits of macroscopic co-cultures as experimental model systems.
2020-07-21 | PXD019908 | Pride