Project description:A porcine microarray study of acute right ventricular failure due to coronary artery ligation of the right ventricular free wall. 1. Baseline sample from the free right ventricular wall. 2. Ligation of the coronary arteries on the right ventricular free wall induced right ventricular heart failure. When the pressure in the right atrium rose to >20 mmHg, heart failure samples were taken from the free right ventricular wall.
Project description:A porcine microarray study of right ventricular failure due to coronary artery ligation of the right ventricular free wall and subsequent treatment of right ventricular failure by volume unloading using a shunt between superior vena cava and the pulmonary artery (Glenn-shunt) 1. Surgical preparation with a 12 mm graft between superior vena cava and pulmonary artery, the graft is then clamped - Baseline sample using a biopsy needle. 2. After surgical preparation the coronary arteries of the right ventricular free wall are ligated, then heart failure develops over 120 minutes - Failure sample using a biopsy needle. 3. The shunt is then opened and the superior vena cava closed between the shunt and right atrium, diverting the blood from superior vena cava through the shunt for a period of 15 minutes partially unloading the right ventricle - Shunt sample using a biopsy needle. A series of six pigs, three samples from each animal: baseline, failure and shunt/treatment.
Project description:Right ventricular failure was induced thourgh pulmonary banding in 11 pigs. Right ventricular failure was defined as a SRVP >50 mmHg during two hours. After right ventricular failure was induced, half the pigs were treatmed with a Glenn-shunt combined with pulmonary banding for one hour, and the other half served as control group with pulmonary banding only. The aim was to study the change in global gene expression during right ventricular failure due to pulmonary banding, and the effect of volume unloading during pulmonary banding. 11 pigs. Samples at the following time periods: 1) Baseline 2) Right ventricular failure 3) Treatment with modified Glenn-shunt/Control. After Right ventricular failure, pigs were divided into two groups a) Treatment with modified Glenn-shunt or b) Control group
Project description:Right ventricular failure was induced thourgh pulmonary banding in 11 pigs. Right ventricular failure was defined as a SRVP >50 mmHg during two hours. After right ventricular failure was induced, half the pigs were treated with a Glenn-shunt combined with pulmonary banding for one hour, and the other half served as control group with pulmonary banding only. The aim was to study the change in global gene expression during right ventricular failure due to pulmonary banding, and the effect of volume unloading during pulmonary banding.
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:Myocardial infarction (MI) often results in left ventricular (LV) remodeling followed by heart failure (HF). It is of great clinical importance to understand the molecular mechanisms that trigger transition from compensated LV injury to HF and to identify relevant diagnostic biomarkers. In this study, we performed transcriptional profiling of LVs in rats with a wide range of experimentally induced infarct sizes and of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) in animals that developed HF. We used microarrays to investigate gene expression in the left ventricle (LV) accompanying myocardial infarction and concomitant heart failure (HF) in a well validated model of post-infarcted heart failure and to evaluate their reflection in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) Myocardial infarction (MI) was induced in male Wistar rats by ligation of the proximal left coronary artery. The sham-operated group (control group) was subjected to the same protocol, except that the suture was not tied around the proximal left coronary artery. Sham-operated rats (n=6) and rats with small (n=6), moderate (n=6), and large (n=5) MI size were included into the experiment two months after the operation. Then, left ventricules and blood samples were obtained for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix microarrays. Microarrays were used to compare the LV and PBMCs transcriptomes of control and experimental animals. The development of heart failure was estimated by echocardiography and catheterization.
Project description:Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a debilitating progressive disease characterized by high blood pressure in the pulmonary artery. Chrysin (5,7-dihydroxyflavone) is a phytochemical, which is a flavonoid widely present in plant sources. It is known that right ventricular dysfunction is the worst mortality predictor in patient with PAH. Recent studies have shown that chrysin improves hemodynamic parameters including right ventricular pressure, right ventricular hypertrophy, and pulmonary vascular remodeling in a rat model of chronic hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension. On the other hand, trimetazidine (TMZ) is an anti-ischemic agent widely used in the treatment of coronary artery disease. It has been reported that trimetazidine therapy for 3 months on top of standard PAH regime significantly improve right ventricular ejection fraction and functional capacity in patient with PAH. However, the effects of chrysin or trimetazidine on gene expression in lung of patient with PAH. Here, we performed that a comprehensive analysis of gene expression changes in lung tissues of sugen-received rats under hypoxic conditions, which is a model of PAH with chrysin or trimetazidine treatment using RNA sequencing (RNA-seq).
Project description:Phenotypic heterogeneity among arterial ECs is particularly relevant to atherosclerosis since the disease occurs predominantly in major arteries, which vary in their atherosusceptibility. To explore EC heterogeneity, we used DNA microarrays to compare gene expression profiles of freshly harvested porcine coronary and iliac artery ECs. We demonstrate that in vivo the endothelial transcriptional profile of a coronary artery (the right coronary artery) is intrinsically different from that of a major conduit vessel (the external iliac artery), and that this difference is consistent with former vessel being more prone to atherosclerosis. Keywords: coronary atherosclerosis, endothelial heterogeneity, microarray, gene expression Endothelial cells were freshly harvest from right coronary, left and right iliac arteries from four pigs. RNA were isolated and expression profiles were obtained using olig microarrays.
Project description:We took samples of subcutaneous adipose tissue from the sternum (SAT) and epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) from a site adjacent to the right coronary artery in cases with coronary disease and controls without coronary disease. Cases had significant coronary disease and were undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery. Controls all had coronary angiograms and did not have significant coronary disease.