Projects per year
Abstract
Understanding the spatial gene expression and regulation in the heart is key to uncovering its developmental and physiological processes, during homeostasis and disease. Numerous techniques exist to gain gene expression and regulation information in organs such as the heart, but few utilize intuitive true-to-life three-dimensional representations to analyze and visualise results. Here we combined transcriptomics with 3D-modelling to interrogate spatial gene expression in the mammalian heart. For this, we microdissected and sequenced transcriptome-wide 18 anatomical sections of the adult mouse heart. Our study has unveiled known and novel genes that display complex spatial expression in the heart sub-compartments. We have also created 3D-cardiomics, an interface for spatial transcriptome analysis and visualization that allows the easy exploration of these data in a 3D model of the heart. 3D-cardiomics is accessible from http://3d-cardiomics.erc.monash.edu/.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 20-32 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology |
Volume | 163 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Feb 2022 |
Keywords
- 3D organ
- Bioinformatics
- Cardiac model
- Cardiac systems
- Data visualization
- Spatial transcriptomics
- Systems biology
Projects
- 5 Finished
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Role of human non-coding DNA regulatory elements (REs) in heart development and disease
Ramialison, M. & Elliott, D. A.
1/01/20 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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Formation of boundaries in the developing embryo
Ramialison, M., Nguyen, L. & Bakkers, J.
10/06/19 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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Endocardial sprouting and mechano-signalling in heart trabeculation
Harvey, R. P. & del Monte Nieto, G.
21/05/19 → 20/05/22
Project: Research