title: Gene Expression Profiling of Pulmonary Artery in a Rabbit Model of Pulmonary Thromboembolism.
abstract: Acute pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) refers to the obstruction of thrombus in pulmonary artery or its branches. Recent studies have suggested that PTE-induced endothelium injury is the major physiological consequence of PTE. And it is reasonal to use PTE-induced endothelium injury to stratify disease severity. According to the massive morphologic and histologic findings, rabbit models could be applied to closely mimic the human PE. Genomewide gene expression profiling has not been attempted in PTE. In this study, we determined the accuracy of rabbit autologous thrombus PTE model for human PTE disease, then we applied gene expression array to identify gene expression changes in pulmonary arteries under PTE to identify potential molecular biomarkers and signaling pathways for PTE. We detected 1343 genes were upregulated and 923 genes were downregulated in PTE rabbits. The expression of several genes (IL-8, TNF-α, and CXCL5) with functional importance were further confirmed in transcript and protein levels. The most significantly differentially regulated genes were related to inflammation, immune disease, pulmonary disease, and cardiovascular diseases. Totally 87 genes were up-regulated in the inflammatory genes. We conclude that gene expression profiling in rabbit PTE model could extend the understanding of PTE pathogenesis at the molecular level. Our study provides the fundamental framework for future clinical research on human PTE, including identification of potential biomarkers for prognosis or therapeutic targets for PTE.
authors: Department of Respiratory Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, 226001, Jiangsu, China.
authors: Zhiyuan
authors: Z
authors: Tang
authors: Department of Laboratory Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, 226001, Jiangsu, China.
authors: Xudong
authors: X
authors: Wang
authors: Department of Pathology, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University. Nantong, 226001, Jiangsu, China.|Department of Clinical Bio-bank, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China.
authors: Jianfei
authors: J
authors: Huang
authors: Department of Respiratory Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, 226001, Jiangsu, China.
authors: Xiaoyu
authors: X
authors: Zhou
authors: Key Lab of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210009, China.
authors: Hao
authors: H
authors: Xie
authors: Department of Respiratory Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, 226001, Jiangsu, China.
authors: Qilin
authors: Q
authors: Zhu
authors: Department of Respiratory Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, 226001, Jiangsu, China.
authors: Minjie
authors: M
authors: Huang
authors: Department of Respiratory Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, 226001, Jiangsu, China.
authors: Songshi
authors: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1381-5298
authors: S
authors: Ni
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015415:Biomarkers; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D053263:Gene Regulatory Networks; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology*; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology*; D011817:Rabbits; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D015398:Signal Transduction; D059467:Transcriptome
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers