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ArticleScientific reports2017

Upregulation of arylsulfatase B in carotid atherosclerosis is associated with symptoms of cerebral embolization.

Erik Biros, Corey S Moran, Jane Maguire, Elizabeth Holliday, Christopher Levi, Jonathan Golledge

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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6 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Erik BirosThe Queensland Research Centre for Peripheral Vascular Disease, College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
Corey S MoranThe Queensland Research Centre for Peripheral Vascular Disease, College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
Jane MaguireSchool of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia.
Elizabeth HollidayPublic Health Research Program, Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
Christopher LeviJohn Hunter Hospital, Hunter Medical Research Institute and University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia.
Jonathan GolledgeThe Queensland Research Centre for Peripheral Vascular Disease, College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia. jonathan.golledge@jcu.edu.au.
James Cook University · AUHunter Medical Research Institute · AUJohn Hunter Hospital · AUTownsville Hospital · AUUniversity of Newcastle Australia · AU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aim of this study was to identify genes for which the expression within carotid atherosclerosis was reproducibly associated with the symptoms of cerebral embolization. Two publically available microarray datasets E-MEXP-2257 and GSE21545 were analysed using GeneSpring 11.5. The two datasets utilized a total of 22 and 126 carotid atherosclerosis samples, obtained from patients with and without symptoms of cerebral embolization, respectively. To assess whether the findings were reproducible we analysed carotid atherosclerosis samples from another 8 patients with and 7 patients without symptoms of cerebral embolization using real-time PCR. In vitro studies using VSMC were performed to assess the functional relevance of one of the validated genes. We identified 1624 and 135 differentially expressed genes within carotid atherosclerosis samples of symptomatic compared to asymptomatic patients using the E-MEXP-2257 and GSE21545 datasets, respectively (≥1.15-absolute fold-change, P < 0.05). Only 7 differentially expressed genes or 0.4% (7/1,752) were consistent between the datasets. We validated the differential expression of ARSB which was upregulated 1.15-fold (P = 0.029) in atherosclerosis from symptomatic patients. In vitro incubation of VSMCs with the ARSB inhibitor L-ascorbic acid resulted in marked upregulation of SIRT1 and AMPK. This study suggests that ARSB may represent a novel target to limit carotid embolization.

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Gene ExpressionAgedCarotid Artery DiseasesCells, CulturedFemaleGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression RegulationHumansIntracranial EmbolismMaleMiddle AgedN-Acetylgalactosamine-4-SulfataseSignal TransductionSymptom AssessmentUp-RegulationN-Acetylgalactosamine-4-Sulfatase

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