Project description:The biological mechanisms by which cerebral aneurysms emerge, enlarge and rupture are not totally understood. In the present study, we analyzed the genome-wide gene expression profile in human intracranial aneurysms using cDNA microarrays. Intracranial arterial aneurysm samples (n = 3) and normal superficial temporal artery samples (control, n = 3) were obtained from individual subjects. All aneurysm samples were unruptured aneurysms confirmed by Magnetic Resonance Image or Digital Subtraction Angiography. Affymetrix HU133 Plus 2.0 microarrays were used to compare gene expression levels between aneurismal and normal blood vessels.
Project description:Gene expression information is useful in prioritizing candidate genes in linkage intervals. The data can also identify pathways involved in the pathophysiology of disease. We used microarrays to identify which genes are expressed in either intracranial arteries (control) or in intracranial aneurysms (case), and can therefore contribute to the disease phenotypes. We used microarrays to identify the pathway membership of expressed genes and the overrepresentation of pathways with expressed genes in the known linkage intervals for intracranial aneurysms. Keywords: Characterization of expression in both diseased and non-diseased intracranial arteries.
Project description:The biological mechanisms by which cerebral aneurysms emerge, enlarge and rupture are not totally understood. In the present study, we analyzed the genome-wide gene expression profile in human intracranial aneurysms using cDNA microarrays.
Project description:The primary aim of the present study was to identify differences on the transcription level between ruptured and unruptured intracranial aneurysms as well as normal intracranial arteries in human. Keywords: Expression profiling by array Global gene expression profiling was performed in human intracranial aneurysms both ruptured (n=8) and unruptured (n=6) as well as in control intracranial arteries (middle meningeal artery, MMA; n=5) using oligonucleotide microarrays.
Project description:In this study, we explored transcriptional differences in human neutrophils from patients with intracranial aneurysms and a demographic and comorbidity paired population of controls
Project description:In the present study we aimed to investigate the systemic response to a rupture of intracranial aneurysms by an analysis of global gene expression profiles in peripheral blood cells. In addition, we sought to determine whether this approach could provide biomarkers related to clinical status of subarachnoid hemorrhage patients. Patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage from ruptured aneurysm were prospectively recruited from patients consecutively admitted to the Departments of Neurology or Neurosurgery and Neurotraumatology, University Hospital, Krakow, Poland in 2010 and 2011. Control subjects were recruited from patients of the Department of Neurology suffered from headaches.
Project description:The primary aim of the present study was to identify differences on the transcription level between ruptured and unruptured intracranial aneurysms as well as normal intracranial arteries in human. Keywords: Expression profiling by array
Project description:In the present study we aimed to investigate the systemic response to a rupture of intracranial aneurysms by an analysis of global gene expression profiles in peripheral blood cells. In addition, we sought to determine whether this approach could provide biomarkers related to clinical status of subarachnoid hemorrhage patients.
Project description:We carried out a case control study in an attempt to identify changes in circulating microRNAs in patients with intracranial aneurysms (IAs). We selected 40 cases (20 ruptured and 20 unruptured) and 20 healthy controls. We randomly selected 5 samples from each group and combined them into a sample pool. In this way we obtained 12 sample pools and one pool was used for a single microarray. Changes in microRNA levels in the plasma were surveyed with Agilent Human microRNA Microarray (Release 14.0, 8x15K). We identified 20 microRNAs that were unanimously changed in both ruptured and unruptured patients.
Project description:Background and Purpose Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, almost always from saccular intracranial aneurysm (sIA), is a devastating form of stroke that affects working age population. Cellular and molecular mechanisms predisposing to the rupture of the sIA wall are largely unknown. Such knowledge would facilitate the design of novel diagnostic tools and therapies for the sIA disease. Methods We compared the whole genome expression profile of eleven ruptured sIA wall samples, resected at a median of 15 hours after rupture, to that of eight unruptured ones. Signaling pathways enriched in the ruptured sIA walls were identified with bioinformatic analyses. Their transcriptional control was predicted in silico by seeking the enrichment of conserved transcription factor binding sites in the promoter regions of differentially expressed genes. Results Overall, 686 genes were significantly upregulated and 740 downregulated in the ruptured sIA walls. Significantly upregulated biological processes included: response to turbulent blood flow; chemotaxis; leukocyte migration; oxidative stress; vascular remodelling; and extracellular matrix degradation. Toll like receptor (TLR) signalling and NF-κB, HIF1A and ETS transcription factor binding sites were significantly enriched among the upregulated genes. Conclusions We identified pathways and candidate genes associated to the rupture of human sIA wall. These results provide a molecular basis analysis (a) to identify rupture-prone sIAs and (b) to prevent their rupture. Novel measures to prevent the rupture of sIA wall may include inhibition of response to turbulent blood flow, leukocyte migration, TLR signalling, or blockade of NF-κB, HIF1A and ETS transcription factors.