Project description:There are regional differences in plaque morphology and mechanistic differences between areas upstream and downstream of the lipid core. Transcript expression profiles were determined for post-bifurcation carotid plaques to identify genes differentially expressed between symptomatic and asymptomatic patients.
Project description:There are regional differences in plaque morphology and protein expression. MicroRNA expression profiles were determined for post-bifurcation carotid plaques to identify gene regulation mechanisms differentially expressed between symptomatic and asymptomatic patients.
Project description:The aim of this study was to identify new biomarkers and to investigate pathways involved in the progression of human carotid atheroma.
Project description:The aim of this study was to identify new biomarkers and to investigate pathways involved in the progression of human carotid atheroma. The study was conducted from pieces of carotid endarterectomy collected in 32 hypertensive patients. The samples contained media and neo-intima without adventitia. They were paired, including for each patient one sample of the atheroma plaque (stage IV and over of the Stary classfication) containing core and shoulders of the plaque, and one sample of distant macroscopically intact tissue (stages I and II). In addition, clinical, biological and histological data were collected.
Project description:The aim of this study was to identify new biomarkers and to investigate pathways involved in the progression of human carotid atheroma. The study was conducted from pieces of carotid endarterectomy collected in 32 hypertensive patients. The samples contained media and neo-intima without adventitia. They were paired, including for each patient one sample of the atheroma plaque (stage IV and over of the Stary classfication) containing core and shoulders of the plaque, and one sample of distant macroscopically intact tissue (stages I and II). In addition, clinical, biological and histological data were collected.
Project description:Pathologic and clinical investigations suggest that femoral artery plaques are less inflammatory than other vascular beds, including carotid arteries. However, limited data exist regarding comparative immune landscapes and inflammatory polarization that may underlie such differences in femoral versus carotid plaque.
Project description:We conducted a comparison of scRNA-seq on four paired fresh and cryopreserved atheroma samples, two from coronary arteries and two from carotid arteries, to determine whether it is possible to obtain comparable data from frozen samples. After enzymatic digestion into single cell suspensions, we sorted CD45+ cells from half of each sample and immediately processed these using the 10X Genomics scRNA-seq workflow after collection, while the other half was frozen in liquid nitrogen. After cryopreservation for an average of 7 days, the other half of each sample was thawed and sorted identically to the fresh samples.
Project description:Although unstable atherosclerosis in the carotid bifurcation is a significant etiology behind ischemic stroke, clinical imaging methods to distinguish stable from vulnerable lesions are lacking and selection of patients for stroke-preventive intervention still relies on surrogate variables with moderate predictive power, such as the degree of luminal narrowing. Here we combined clinical and diagnostic imaging information by comuted tomography to select patients with calcified plaques for large scale molecular analysis, in an effort to increase our understanding of the pathophysiology behind carotid plaque instability as related to patient- and plaque- phenotype.