Project description:We created mice, which are deficient for Myc specifically in cardiac myocytes by crossing crossed Myc-floxed mice (Mycfl/fl) and MLC-2VCre/+ mice. Serial analysis of earlier stages of gestation revealed that Myc-deficient mice died prematurely at E13.5-14.5. Morphological analyses of E13.5 Myc-null embryos showed normal ventricular size and structure; however, decreased cardiac myocyte proliferation and increased apoptosis was observed. BrdU incorporation rates were also decreased significantly in Myc-null myocardium. Myc-null mice displayed a 3.67-fold increase in apoptotic cardiomyocytes by TUNEL assay. We examined global gene expression using oligonucleotide microarrays. Numerous genes involved in mitochondrial death pathways were dysregulated including Bnip3L and Birc2. Keywords: wildtype vs Myc-null

2007-06-30 | GSE7162 | GEO

Mus musculus

Project description:Impairment of cardiac natriuretic peptide signaling develops the excessive cardiac hypertrophy during lactation period

| PRJNA330981 | ENA

Loss of Lin28a Attenuates Cardiac Hypertrophy Induced by Pressure Overload

Project description:Pathological cardiac hypertrophy is a major risk factor for the development of heart failure and sudden cardiac death, yet the molecular mechanism of cardiac hypertrophy is not fully understood. Recently, we found that the expression of Lin28a, a RNA-binding protein, was significantly upregulated during the early stages of cardiac hypertrophy. Interestingly, cardiac specific conditional deletion of Lin28a blunted pressure overload-induced cardiac hypertrophic responses. Given that Lin28a can bind to diverse mRNA to regulate their abundance and/or translation, we conducted RNA-seq to profile the cardiac transcriptome alteration without Lin28a under pressure overload. It showed that metabolic pathways, including glycolysis and biosynthetic pathway, were remarkedly affected. Thus, our study identifies Lin28a as a crucial regulator of cardiac hypertrophy via its role in metabolic programming.

2019-04-30 | GSE106897 | GEO

Bidirectional Introgression between Mus musculus domesticus and Mus spretus.

Project description:Introgressed variants from other species can be an important source of genetic variation because they may arise rapidly, can include multiple mutations on a single haplotype, and have often been pretested by selection in the species of origin. Although introgressed alleles are generally deleterious, several studies have reported introgression as the source of adaptive alleles-including the rodenticide-resistant variant of Vkorc1 that introgressed from Mus spretus into European populations of Mus musculus domesticus. Here, we conducted bidirectional genome scans to characterize introgressed regions into one wild population of M. spretus from Spain and three wild populations of M. m. domesticus from France, Germany, and Iran. Despite the fact that these species show considerable intrinsic postzygotic reproductive isolation, introgression was observed in all individuals, including in the M. musculus reference genome (GRCm38). Mus spretus individuals had a greater proportion of introgression compared with M. m. domesticus, and within M. m. domesticus, the proportion of introgression decreased with geographic distance from the area of sympatry. Introgression was observed on all autosomes for both species, but not on the X-chromosome in M. m. domesticus, consistent with known X-linked hybrid sterility and inviability genes that have been mapped to the M. spretus X-chromosome. Tract lengths were generally short with a few outliers of up to 2.7 Mb. Interestingly, the longest introgressed tracts were in olfactory receptor regions, and introgressed tracts were significantly enriched for olfactory receptor genes in both species, suggesting that introgression may be a source of functional novelty even between species with high barriers to gene flow.

| S-EPMC8784167 | biostudies-literature

Mus musculus

Project description:Pressure-Overload Induced Cardiac Hypertrophy

| PRJNA85517 | ENA

Mus musculus

Project description:Gene profiling of pathological cardiac hypertrophy vs physiological hypertrophy

| PRJNA100305 | ENA

Mus musculus

Project description:Gene expression microarray profiling in mice hearts with pathological and physiological cardiac hypertrophy

| PRJNA242995 | ENA