Project description:Atherosclerosis is a chronic process that leads to ischemic heart disease, strokes, and peripheral vascular disease. While circRNA are implicated in a variety of diseases, their role in atherosclerosis is not well understood. This study aims to investigate how dysregulated circRNA contribute to atherosclerosis.
Project description:Paired samples from human femoral artery lesions were obtained during intravascular surgery exploiting Silverhawk device Microarrays were used to identify genes differentially regulated in human femoral artery atherosclerotic and corresponding restenotic plaques
Project description:Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a recently discovered non-coding RNA isoform capable of regulating neurological disease incidence. The present study was designed to characterize the circRNA expression profiles present in large-artery atherosclerosis (LAA)-type acute ischemic stroke patients. Using a RNA-seq approach, we characterized circRNA expression profiles in 5 LAA-stroke patients and 4 controls. We identified 182 and 176 circRNAs that were up- and down-regulated, respectively, in LAA-stroke patients relative to controls. Enrichment analyses suggested these differentially expressed circRNAs to primarily be associated with chromatin modification, autophagy, platelet activation, and neural precursor cell proliferation.
Project description:To investigate the expression profiles of miRNA in atherosclerotic plaques, the global features of miRNAs expression of three normal coronary artery tissues sample pools and three sample pools of advanced atherosclerosis plaques of coronary artery were studied using microarray technology,
Project description:Monocytes and T-cells play an important role in the development of atherosclerotic coronary artery disease (CAD). Differences in transcriptional activity of these cells might reflect the individual's atherosclerotic burden. Transcriptome analysis of circulating mononuclear cells from carefully matched atherosclerotic and control patients will potentially provide insights into the pathophysiology of atherosclerosis and supply biomarkers for diagnostic purposes. From patients undergoing coronary angiography because of anginal symptoms, we carefully matched 18 patients with severe triple-vessel CAD to 13 control patients without signs of CAD on angiography. All patients were on statin and aspirin treatment. RNA from circulating CD4+ T-cells, CD14+ monocytes, lipopolysaccharide-stimulated monocytes, macrophages and CD34+ progenitor cells was subjected to genome-wide expression analysis. Only CD14+ monocytes demonstrated that a small number of genes involved in activation was overexpressed in control patients, which was verified by real-time polymerase-chain reaction. In this pilot study, cautious matching of patients with severe atherosclerotic CAD with control patients without angiographic signs of coronary atherosclerosis did not reveal differences in transcriptional activity in four out of five different mononuclear cell types. In resting monocytes from patients without overt CAD some inflammatory genes were overexpressed as compared to patients with severe CAD. Large inter-individual variability prevented the use of single differentially expressed genes as biomarkers. Keywords: disease-state analysis In total 153 arrays were analyzed with 6 technical replicates (147 biological samples). CD34+ stem cells, CD4+ T-cells, resting CD14+ monocytes, stimulated monocytes and macrophages were analyzed, all from patient with severe coronary atherosclerosis or controls that had no coronary atherosclerosis as determined angiographically, and which were carefully matched for age and gender.
Project description:To explore circRNAs expression profiles of mouse atherosclerotic model, we performed RNA-seq to detect circRNAs with potential functional role in atherosclerosis (AS).
Project description:Arraystar Human circRNA Microarray is designed for the global profiling of human circRNAs. In this study, we applied a circRNA microarray to screen the potential biomarker for HCC. 20 samples extracted from plasma samples including HCC group before operation, and after operation, CH group and control group. Each group contained five samples.