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Dynamic changes of gene expression profiles during postnatal development of the heart in mice
  1. H-W Chen1,*,
  2. S-L Yu2,*,
  3. W-J Chen3,
  4. P-C Yang2,
  5. C-T Chien4,
  6. H-Y Chou6,
  7. H-N Li2,
  8. K Peck7,
  9. C-H Huang3,
  10. F-Y Lin5,
  11. J J W Chen8,†,
  12. Y-T Lee2,†
  1. 1Department of Life Science, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
  2. 2Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
  3. 3Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
  4. 4Departments of Medical Research, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
  5. 5Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
  6. 6Institute of Molecular Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
  7. 7Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
  8. 8Institute of Biomedical Sciences and Molecular Biology, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
  1. Correspondence to:
    Dr Yuan-Teh Lee
    Internal Medicine (Cardiology), National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei 100, Taiwan; spartha.mc.ntu.edu.tw

Abstract

Objective: To study postnatal cardiac differentiation in the mouse.

Hypothesis: There might be mechanisms or factors in cardiac differentiation that could be identified by systematic gene expression analysis during postnatal cardiac development.

Methods: Expression of 6144 genes was examined in mouse heart, from the newborn period (day 0), through day 7 and day 14 day, to adulthood, using the cDNA microarray approach. Northern blotting and immunohistochemical techniques were used to confirm the microarray results.

Results: Various cardiac development related genes involving the cell cycle (cyclin B1, proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), and Ki67), growth factors (IGF-II, pleiotrophin (PTN), and midkine (MK)), and transcriptional regulation, cytoskeleton, and detoxification enzymes were identified by microarray analysis. Some of these genes were also confirmed by Northern blotting and immunohistochemistry of their RNA and protein content. In vivo treatment with PTN (20 ng/g) increased bromodeoxyuridine incorporation (by 2.24-fold) and PCNA expression (by 1.71-fold) during day 7 to day 14, indicating that PTN induces cell proliferation in mouse heart.

Conclusions: Global gene expression analysis in the whole heart may be useful in understanding the orchestrated process of postnatal development or terminal differentiation in the cardiac environment. These data are likely to be helpful in studying developmental anomalies of the heart in neonates.

  • EST, expressed sequence tag
  • PCNA, proliferating cell nuclear antigen
  • PTN, pleiotrophin
  • developmental biology
  • gene expression
  • growth factors
  • microarray
  • pleiotrophin

https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.2002.006734

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    Footnotes

    • ↵* Sung-Liang Yu and Huei-Wen Chen contributed equally to this work.

    • ↵† Jeremy JW Chen and Yuan-Teh Lee contributed equally to this work and are joint corresponding authors.