Spatial detection of fetal marker genes expressed at low level in adult human heart tissue.
Sci Rep
; 7(1): 12941, 2017 10 11.
Article
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-29021611
Heart failure is a major health problem linked to poor quality of life and high mortality rates. Hence, novel biomarkers, such as fetal marker genes with low expression levels, could potentially differentiate disease states in order to improve therapy. In many studies on heart failure, cardiac biopsies have been analyzed as uniform pieces of tissue with bulk techniques, but this homogenization approach can mask medically relevant phenotypes occurring only in isolated parts of the tissue. This study examines such spatial variations within and between regions of cardiac biopsies. In contrast to standard RNA sequencing, this approach provides a spatially resolved transcriptome- and tissue-wide perspective of the adult human heart, and enables detection of fetal marker genes expressed by minor subpopulations of cells within the tissue. Analysis of patients with heart failure, with preserved ejection fraction, demonstrated spatially divergent expression of fetal genes in cardiac biopsies.
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Biomarcadores
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Regulación del Desarrollo de la Expresión Génica
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Feto
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Miocardio
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
Aspecto:
Patient_preference
Límite:
Adult
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Aged
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Sci Rep
Año:
2017
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Suecia
Pais de publicación:
Reino Unido