Project description:The experiment was designed to assess genome-wide binding sites of Myocyte Enhancer Factor 2 (MEF2) in adult mouse ventricular cardiomyocytes.
Project description:Neonatal rat ventricular myocytes cultured for 48 hours without stimulation, in the presence of twenty micromolar phenylephrine, or in the presence of one micromolar PAMH. Keywords = Rattus Keywords = Ventricular Myocytes Keywords = Cardiomyocytes Keywords = Hypertrophy Keywords = Phenylephrine Keywords = PAMH Keywords = 5-hydroxytryptamine Keywords = Pyridine Keywords: repeat sample
Project description:Title: Regulation of gene expression through mitogen-activated protein kinase cascades in cardiac myocytes.<br/> Description: The aim of this study is to identify the changes in gene expression induced in rat neonatal <br/> ventricular myocytes, a well-established cell culture model, by endothelin-1, <br/> a known hypertrophic agonist, and to determine which of the changes are <br/> mediated through the ERK cascade. This continues TKAC^Ys previous study of the <br/> effects of oxidative stress, which induces cardiac myocyte apoptosis.<br/>
Project description:ChIP assay was performed to study the genomic location of SRF myocytes cistrome in adult ventricular cardiomyocytes. The myocytes were stimulated by phenylephrine (PE) combined with adenoviral overexpression of SRF serine-103 mutants.
Project description:Neonatal rat ventricular myocytes cultured for 48 hours without stimulation, in the presence of twenty micromolar phenylephrine, or in the presence of one micromolar PAMH.
Project description:We compared the transcriptome modified by siRNA-mediated cardiac hypertrophy associated epigenentic regulator (Chaer) with negative control siRNA treated neonatal rat ventricular myocytes with or without phenylephrine treatment. The results suggest that Chaer knockdown broadly blocks the phenylephrine-induced hypertrophic programming of the transcriptome. Transcripts profiles from neonatal rat ventricular myocytes with or without phenylephrine and with or without Chaer-specific siRNA compared to negative control siRNA
Project description:Title: Regulation of gene expression through mitogen-activated protein kinase cascades in cardiac myocytes.<br/> Description: We aim to identify the changes in gene expression induced in rat <br/> neonatal ventricular myocytes, a well established cell culture model, <br/> by phenylepherine, a known hypertrophic agonist, and to determine which <br/> of the changes are mediated through the ERK cascade. In addition, we <br/> intend to extend the previous studies (EXP_TKAC_0102_01 and <br/> EXP_TKAC_1103_02) on endothelin-1 induced hypertrophy and the oxidative <br/> stress induced by H2O2 by using additional concentrations and timepoints.
Project description:Ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM) leads to congestive heart failure and can cause sudden cardiac death due to arrhythmia. Existing molecular knowledge base of ICM is rudimentary because of lack of specific attribution to cell type and function. This study was designed to investigate cell-specific molecular remodeling of ion channels, exchangers and pumps, which are signaling molecules (SM) involved in electrical, signaling and mechanical functions of the heart. Atrial and ventricular myocytes were isolated by laser-capture microdissection from left atrium and ventricle of healthy and ICM human hearts. SM and their splice variants altered by ICM in cardiomyocytes were identified by splice microarray and validated by RT-PCR. Molecular profiling of ICM-related changes showed that SM in atrial and ventricular myocytes remodel following their unique programs. ICM affected 63 genes in ventricular myocytes and 12 genes in atrial myocytes. Only few of the identified genes were previously linked to human cardiac disfunctions.
Project description:Ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM) leads to congestive heart failure and can cause sudden cardiac death due to arrhythmia. Existing molecular knowledge base of ICM is rudimentary because of lack of specific attribution to cell type and function. This study was designed to investigate cell-specific molecular remodeling of ion channels, exchangers and pumps, which are signaling molecules (SM) involved in electrical, signaling and mechanical functions of the heart. Atrial and ventricular myocytes were isolated by laser-capture microdissection from left atrium and ventricle of healthy and ICM human hearts. SM and their splice variants altered by ICM in cardiomyocytes were identified by splice microarray and validated by RT-PCR. Molecular profiling of ICM-related changes showed that SM in atrial and ventricular myocytes remodel following their unique programs. ICM affected 63 genes in ventricular myocytes and 12 genes in atrial myocytes. Only few of the identified genes were previously linked to human cardiac disfunctions. In our experiments we used 3 healthy hearts rejected from transplantation procedure and explanted ICM hearts from three male patients. Tissue samples were dissected from left ventricle and left atrial appendages. Atrial and ventricular myocytes were laser-capture microdissected from serial 7-8-µm thick cryostat sections. Individual cellular total RNA samples were analyzed on custom-built Human Ion Channel Splice Arrays slides (ExonHit) manufactured on the Ion Channel Splice Array sv1.1 platform representing 287 human SM, including 248 alternatively spliced ones in total 1655 splicing events and supplemented with capabilities to recognize connexins and ryanodine receptors.