Project description:The molecular mechanisms of progressive right heart failure are incompletely understood. We systematically examined transcriptomic changes occurring over months in isolated cardiomyocytes or whole heart tissues from failing right and left ventricles in rat models of pulmonary artery (PAB) or aortic banding (AOB). Detailed bioinformatics analyses resulted in the identification of gene signatures, protein, and transcription factor networks specific to ventricles and compensated or decompensated disease states. Proteomic and RNA-FISH analyses confirmed PAB-mediated regulation of key genes (including proenkephalin) and revealed spatially heterogeneous mRNA expression in the heart. Intersection of rat PAB-specific gene sets with transcriptome data sets from human patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension led to the identification of more than 50 genes whose expression levels correlated with the severity of right heart disease, including multiple matrix-regulating and secreted factors. These data define a conserved, differentially regulated genetic network associated with right heart failure in rats and humans
2024-04-11 | PXD047022 | Pride
Project description:Gene expression during the life cycle of Drosophila melanogaster
Project description:Rat somatic heart cell had different gene expression level compared with that of the adult cells including rat bone marrow cells(BMC) and rat primary ear fibroblasts(PEF). This difference gave the rat somatic heart cell unique characteristics which could then be compared with the rat iPS cells by genes comparison to show the gene expression difference between rat somatic heart cells and rat iPS cells.