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Transcriptome profiling of plaque macrophages during atherosclerosis regression

ABSTRACT: We have carried out a systems biology investigation of regulators controlling arterial plaque macrophage transcriptional changes in response to lipid lowering, in the Reversa mouse model of plaque regression in which poly I:C injections induce recombination-mediated inactivation of Mttp in the liver and (when combined with a switch to chow diet) restore normal lipid levels in an Ldlr-/-Apob100/100 mouse (Lieu et al., 2003, Circulation, v.107(9), pp.1315-21). Twenty-four Reversa mice (12 males, 12 females) were maintained on Western diet for 16 weeks and given injections of either poly I:C or vehicle (saline) and then switched to normal chow. At seven days after the last injection, animals were sacrificed and CD68+ macrophages were isolated from the aortic root plaque using laser-capture microdissection. An additional two Ldlr-/- animals (male) were treated with poly I:C and CD68+ aortic root plaque macrophages were obtained, as a control group for effects of poly I:C independent of Mttp inactivation. RNA isolated from each of the 26 samples was reverse-transcribed, amplified, fragmented, labeled, and then hybridized to the Affymetrix Mouse Exon Array 1.0 ST GeneChip. Probe intensities were analyzed using transcript-level probesets for gene expression profiling, and for each mouse transcript represented on the microarray, a two-factor model (sex and treatment) was used for the analysis of the 24 samples from the Reversa mice, to test for a significant effect of the poly I:C (vs. saline) treatment.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE52482 | GEO | 2014/12/04

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA229083

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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