Project description:Following myocardial infarction, the prognosis for females is better than males. Estrogen is thought to be protective, but clinical trials with hormone replacement failed to show protection. Here, we sought to identify novel mechanisms that might explain this sex-based difference. By diverging from the traditional focus on sex hormones, we employed a conceptually novel approach to this question by using a non-biased approach to measure global changes in gene expression following infarction. Three days after coronary artery ligation surgery, RNA was extracted from left ventricular samples (infarct excluded) using the QIAGEN RNeasy Fibrous Tissue Mini Kit. Four groups were compared with a 2x2 design: male and female, sham and coronary artery ligation, with five mice per group.
Project description:Thyroid hormone improves left ventricular remodeling and cardiac performance after myocardial infarction (MI), but the molecular basis is unknown. This study was designed to detect gene expression changes in left ventricular non-infarcted areas at 4 weeks following myocardial infarction with and without thyroid hormone treatment. The results suggest that altered expression of genes for molecular function and biological process may be involved in the beneficial effects of thyroid hormone treatment following myocardial infarction in rats. MI was produced by ligation of the left anterior descending coronary artery in female SD rats. Rats were divided into the following groups: (1) Sham MI, (2) MI, and (3) MI+T4 treatment (T4 pellet 3.3mg, 60 days release, implanted subcutaneously immediately following MI). Four weeks after surgery, total RNA was isolated from left ventricular non-infarcted areas for microarray analysis using the Illumina RatRef-12 Expression BeadChip Platform.
Project description:Study of the impact of 4-oxo-RA on LSK cell characteristics post-myocardial infarction in RarB KO mice. Myocardial infarction was induced in female RarB KO mice aged 6 to 12 weeks by LAD occlusion. On the 1st and 2nd post-MI days, mice were intraperitoneally injected with 30 mg/kg 4-oxo-RA (MI+4-oxo-RA) or DMSO in PBS (MI+vehicle). Three days post-MI, mice were euthanized. ScRNA-seq was performed on 25k LSK cells (Lin-, Sca1+, c-Kit+) that were facs sorted.
Project description:Study of the impact of 4-oxo-RA on LSK (bone marrow and spleen) cell characteristics post-myocardial infarction in C57BL/6J mice. Myocardial infarction was induced in female C57BL/6J mice (aged 6 to approximately 12 weeks) through LAD occlusion. Post-surgery, mice were intraperitoneally injected with 30 mg/kg 4-oxo-RA (MI+4-oxo-RA) or the equivalent DMSO in PBS (MI+vehicle) on the 1st and 2nd days after MI. Three days post-MI, mice were euthanized. ScRNA-seq was performed on 25k LSK cells (Lin-, Sca1+, c-Kit+) that were facs sorted.
Project description:To assess the pathophysiological of genetic depletion of Yap and Wwtr1 in myofibroblasts following myocardial infarction, we utilized a Cre-lox system whereby the inducible Periostin promoter is leveraged to deplete both Yap and Wwtr1 from myofibroblasts in mice. Following myocardial infarction, myofibroblast depletion of both Yap and Wwtr1 significantly improves cardiac function after injury as compared to injured controls. Here, we have performed single cell RNA sequencing of interstitial cardiac cells 7 days post myocardial infarction to assess differentially express genes within cardiac fibroblasts and immune cell populations.
Project description:Following myocardial infarction, the prognosis for females is better than males. Estrogen is thought to be protective, but clinical trials with hormone replacement failed to show protection. Here, we sought to identify novel mechanisms that might explain this sex-based difference. By diverging from the traditional focus on sex hormones, we employed a conceptually novel approach to this question by using a non-biased approach to measure global changes in gene expression following infarction.
Project description:The aims of the experiment were to profile the cell types in the adult mouse cardiac interstitium (non-myocyte cells) and how they respond to myocardial infarction injury. Adult, male, Pdgfra +/GFP mice were subject to either a myocardial infarction or sham injury, with cells isolated from cardiac ventricles 3 or 7 days following surgery. We obtained scRNA-seq profiles of two cell fractions: total interstitial (non-myocyte) cell population (TIP) and FACS-sorted GFP+/Cd31- cells (GFP).
Project description:Comparison of both LncRNAs and mRNAs expression in the border zone of the myocardial infarction rats and the sham operation rats Border zone (BZ) of the myocardial infarction is critical to patients. Current treatments of myocardial infarction are primarily aimed to save the dying myocardial cell in the border zone. During myocardial infarction, certain changes in BZ, e.g, apoptosis, fibrosis, inflammation, etc, played an important role in deciding the survival. Impairment and recovery of BZ has been linked to gene expression changes. The aim of our study was to obtain a global expression profile of lncRNAs and mRNAs of the border zone in Wistar rats myocardial infarction, and identify the changes during myocardial infarction.
Project description:Thyroid hormone improves left ventricular remodeling and cardiac performance after myocardial infarction (MI), but the molecular basis is unknown. This study was designed to detect gene expression changes in left ventricular non-infarcted areas at 4 weeks following myocardial infarction with and without thyroid hormone treatment. The results suggest that altered expression of genes for molecular function and biological process may be involved in the beneficial effects of thyroid hormone treatment following myocardial infarction in rats.
