Project description:LncRNA Chaer contributes to the transcriptome reprogramming during phenylephrine-induced hypertrophy in neonatal rat ventricular myocytes
Project description:We compared the transcriptome modified by siRNA-mediated cardiac hypertrophy associated epigenentic regulator (Chaer) with negative control siRNA treated neonatal rat ventricular myocytes with or without phenylephrine treatment. The results suggest that Chaer knockdown broadly blocks the phenylephrine-induced hypertrophic programming of the transcriptome. Transcripts profiles from neonatal rat ventricular myocytes with or without phenylephrine and with or without Chaer-specific siRNA compared to negative control siRNA
Project description:Title: Changes in gene expression affected by H2O2 in cardiac myocytes.<br/> Description: We aim to identify the changes in gene expression in response to <br/> oxidative stress in rat neonatal ventricular myocytes.<br/> Oxidative stress will be induced by dosing neonatal ventricular myocyte<br/> cultures with 0.2, 0.1 and 0.04mM hydrogen peroxide at 2, 4 and 8 hr time<br/> points using unstimulated myocytes as control.