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Genome-wide DNA methylation profiles of 20 paired (normal and varicose) vein samples from the patients with varicose vein disease.

ABSTRACT: To identify genes involved in the formation of a pathological phenotype of varicose veins, we attempted to analyze the methylome of their constituent cells and compare it to the methylome of normal veins from the same patient. We identified a number of genes of extracellular matrix remodeling and cell-cell communication whose methylation status was significantly changed in disease condition.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE68319 | GEO | 2018/09/04

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:BACKGROUND: As evidenced by epidemiological and etiological studies, the development of varicose veins is driven by risk-factors which support the development of venous hypertension and thus chronically augment circumferential stress of the venous wall (e.g. dysfunctional venous valves, pregnancy or obesity). We have previously verified the relevance of this biomechanical stimulus for the activation of venous endothelial as well as smooth muscle cells and the subsequent detrimental structural remodeling of the vein wall in experimental mouse models. METHODS: Here, transcriptome analyses revealed an increase in the expression of cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2) in human venous endothelial cells upon exposure to biomechanical stress. Subsequently, we investigated the impact of diclofenac – a cyclooxygenase inhibitor – on responses of isolated mouse veins to augmented wall stress in vitro and on varicose-like venous remodeling in vivo. RESULTS: Diclofenac treatment decreased COX-2 protein abundance in mouse veins but had no significant impact on the expression of corresponding transcripts. Short-term exposure to elevated pressure levels stimulated the activity of matrix-metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) and mitogen activated protein kinases ERK1/2. Diclofenac decreased the level of activated MMP-2 and ERK1/2 in pressure-exposed mouse veins. Varikose-like remodeling of veins in the mouse auricle was significantly inhibited by transdermal application of diclofenac-containing phospholipid-micelles. This effect was associated with decreased COX-2 and MMP-2 abundance as well as cell proliferation. CONCLUSION: The cyclooxygenase inhibitor diclofenac interferes with short term activation of MAP-kinases and matrix-metalloproteinases in cells of the wall stress-exposed venous wall while attenuating venous remodeling in vivo. Thus, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs may be suitable to interfere with processes promoting the progression of varicose vein development and biomechanical activation of venous cells.

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Genome-wide DNA methylation profiles of 20 paired (normal and varicose) vein samples from the patients with varicose vein disease.

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