RNA Sequencing Reveals Beneficial Effects of Atorvastatin on Endothelial Cells in Acute Kawasaki Disease.

ABSTRACT: Background Damage to the coronary arteries during the acute phase of Kawasaki disease (KD) is linked to inflammatory cell infiltration, myointimal proliferation, and endothelial cell (EC) dysfunction. To understand the response of ECs to KD treatment, we studied the genome-wide transcriptional changes in cultured ECs incubated with KD sera before and after treatment with or without atorvastatin. Methods and Results RNA sequencing of human umbilical vein ECs incubated with pooled sera from patients with acute KD before or after treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin and infliximab revealed differentially expressed genes in interleukin-1, tumor necrosis factor-α, and inflammatory cell recruitment pathways. Subacute sera pooled from patients treated with intravenous immunoglobulin, inflixi

SUBMITTER: Shimizu C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9707837 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature