Project description:Patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) often have an unfavorable cardiometabolic profile, and obesity-related HFpEF has become a well-recognized HFpEF sub-phenotype. Targeting this unfavorable cardiometabolic profile may therefore represent a rational treatment strategy. The glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist (GLP1-RA) semaglutide has been shown to induce significant weight loss and to improve cardiovascular outcomes. In this study, we investigated the cardiometabolic effects of semaglutide in a representative mouse model of HFpEF and compared it to the effects of weight loss by caloric restriction.
Project description:Adipose inflammation is a key component of cardiometabolic disease. We used microarray to profile gene expression changes in adipose tissue following administration of LPS (3ng/kg IV) to healthy human volunteers.
Project description:In this study, we investigated the effects of the marine microalga Tisochrysis lutea F&M-M36 (T. lutea) on cardiometabolic components of pre-MetS induced by a high fat diet, and its underlying mechanisms.
Project description:Identifying the regulatory mechanisms of genome-wide association study (GWAS) loci affecting adipose tissue has been restricted due to limited characterization of adipose transcriptional regulatory elements. We profiled chromatin accessibility in three frozen human subcutaneous adipose tissue needle biopsies and preadipocytes and adipocytes from the Simpson Golabi-Behmel Syndrome (SGBS) cell strain using an assay for transposase-accessible chromatin (ATAC-seq). We identified 68,571 representative accessible chromatin regions (peaks) across adipose tissue samples (FDR<5%). GWAS loci for eight cardiometabolic traits were enriched in these peaks (p<0.005), with the strongest enrichment for waist-hip ratio. Of 110 recently described cardiometabolic GWAS loci colocalized with adipose tissue eQTLs, 59 loci had one or more variants overlapping an adipose tissue peak. Annotated variants at the SNX10 waist-hip ratio locus and the ATP2A1-SH2B1 body mass index locus showed allelic differences in regulatory assays. These adipose tissue accessible chromatin regions elucidate genetic variants that may alter adipose tissue function to impact cardiometabolic traits.
2019-01-01 | GSE110734 | GEO
Project description:MicroRNAs and cardiometabolic traits
| PRJNA680302 | ENA
Project description:Oral microbiome and cardiometabolic traits
Project description:Obesity and diabetes are linked to cardiometabolic diseases, however study in this field faces hardships as there are substantial prognostic heterogeneity involved. To profile the molecular mechanisms that contribute to the different responses to bariatric surgery dependent on the presence of diabetes, we sought to identify extracellular vesicular proteomic signatures of obesity with or without diabetes before or after bariatric surgery. In this study, extracellular vesicle proteins in 30 morbidly obese patients with (n = 12) or without (n = 18) diabetes were sampled before or 6 months after bariatric surgery and were compared to those in 37 healthy controls, analyzed by using the SWATH-MS analysis.
Project description:Aims: Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a multifactorial disease that constitutes several distinct phenotypes, including a common cardiometabolic phenotype with obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Treatment options for HFpEF are limited, and development of novel therapeutics is hindered by the paucity of suitable preclinical HFpEF models that recapitulate the complexity of human HFpEF. Metabolic drugs, like Glucagon Like Peptide Receptor Agonist (GLP-1RA) and Sodium Glucose Transporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i), have emerged as promising drugs to restore metabolic perturbations and may have value in the treatment of the cardiometabolic HFpEF phenotype. We aimed to develop a multifactorial HFpEF mouse model that closely resembles the cardiometabolic HFpEF phenotype, and evaluated the GLP-1 RA liraglutide and a SGLT2i dapagliflozin. Methods&Results: Aged (18-22 months old) female C57BL/6J mice were fed a standardized chow (CTRL) or high fat diet (HFD) for 12 weeks. After 8 weeks HFD, Angiotensin-II (ANGII), was administered for 4 weeks via osmotic mini-pumps. HFD+ANGII resulted in a cardiometabolic HFpEF phenotype, including obesity, impaired glucose handling and metabolic dysregulation with inflammation. The multiple-hit resulted in typical clinical HFpEF features, including cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis with preserved fractional shortening but with impaired myocardial deformation, atrial enlargement lung congestion, and elevated blood pressures. Treatment with liraglutide attenuated the cardiometabolic dysregulation and improved cardiac function, with reduced cardiac hypertrophy, less myocardial fibrosis, and attenuation of atrial weight, natriuretic peptide levels, and lung congestion. Dapagliflozin treatment improved glucose handling, but had mild effects on the HFpEF phenotype. Conclusions: We developed a mouse model that recapitulates the human HFpEF disease, providing a novel opportunity to study disease pathogenesis and development of enhanced therapeutic approaches. We furthermore show that attenuation of cardiometabolic dysregulation may represent a novel therapeutic target for treatment of HFpEF.
Project description:Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified numerous genetic variants associated with cardiometabolic traits, yet their mechanisms in relevant liver cell types remain unclear. Using multiome single-nucleus RNA and ATAC sequencing on liver samples from 39 individuals, we profiled gene expression and chromatin accessibility in 68,398 nuclei across six primary liver cell types. We identified 306,706 accessible chromatin regions, including 70,884 regions undetected in bulk tissue analyses, predominantly representing less abundant cell types. By mapping quantitative trait loci (QTLs), we detected 1,885 chromatin accessibility QTLs (caQTLs) and 67 expression QTLs (eQTLs), highlighting genetic regulation in the different liver cell types. We integrated cell-type QTLs with GWAS signals and revealed cell-types, genes, and chromatin regulatory elements involved in cardiometabolic traits, such as liver enzymes and cholesterol levels. Importantly, non-hepatocyte cell-type QTL analyses elucidated previously obscured mechanisms, such as an eQTL for ADAMTS12 in liver sinusoidal endothelial cells potentially involved in liver fibrosis, demonstrating how single-nucleus approaches capture regulatory events missed in bulk analyses. Furthermore, we annotated bulk liver caQTLs colocalized with GWAS signals to liver cell types, enhancing functional interpretations and predicting cell-type of action for complex trait associations. Our findings provide a comprehensive, high-resolution map of the hepatic regulatory landscape, advancing the understanding of cellular contexts and molecular mechanisms underlying cardiometabolic diseases.