title: Differential gene expression of rat neonatal heart analyzed by suppression subtractive hybridization and expressed sequence tag sequencing.
abstract: Heart diseases have been one of the major killers among the human population worldwide. Because the vast majority of cardiomyocytes cannot regenerate once they cease to proliferate shortly after birth, functionally significant myocardial regeneration is not observed clinically. Whether these cells are terminally differentiated and permanently withdrawn from the cell cycle is controversial, but broadening our understanding of the rapid switch from hyperplastic to hypertrophic growth of cardiomyocytes during neonatal myocardial development may shed light on novel cardiovascular therapies. By suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) and expressed sequence tag (EST) sequencing, we analyzed the differential gene expression of rat neonatal heart. SSH yielded subtracted and normalized cDNA libraries and enhanced the probability of detecting ESTs, which represent genes pertinent to signal transduction/cell regulation and replication/transcription/translation machinery, as compared to the traditional EST sequencing of heart cDNA libraries.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China.
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Chim
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Cheung
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Tsui
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D015342:DNA Probes; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D020224:Expressed Sequence Tags; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D009206:Myocardium / Q000378:metabolism*; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D013382:Subtraction Technique
chemical_list: D015342:DNA Probes; D018076:DNA, Complementary