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Huifeng Xu1, Tao Qing2, Yi Shen3
1Department of Cardiology, Tongji Hospital of Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
Objectives:
High-salt diet is one of the major risk factors in the development of hypertension. Previous studies have observed a relationship between high-salt induced blood pressure levels and cardiac-cerebral disease. However, the molecular mechanism of high-salt diet induced hypertension and the serious complications in cardiovascular system still remain unknown.
Materials And Methods:
We built high-salt diet induced hypertension rat models, and investigated the transcriptomic alteration in four hypertension affected tissues, i.e. ventricle and atrium in heart as well as cortex and medulla in kidney. Differential expression gene (DEG) analysis and further functional annotation including Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) was performed to reveal the molecular mechanism of high-salt induced hypertension and organ injury.
Results:
We observed that several genes associated with cardiovascular development and organ injury were significantly dysregulated rat fed with high-salt diet, such as Mmp-15, Igfbp7, Rgs18 and Hras. We demonstrated that differential expressed genes were functionally related to the increased levels of alkaline phosphatase (ALP).
Conclusion:
Our study provided new insight about molecular mechanism of high-salt induced hypertension and heart and kidney damage.
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