Kräker, K; Schütte, T; O'Driscoll, J; Birukov, A; Patey, O; Herse, F; Müller, DN; Thilaganathan, B; Haase, N; Dechend, R
(2020)
Speckle Tracking Echocardiography: New Ways of Translational Approaches in Preeclampsia to Detect Cardiovascular Dysfunction.
Int J Mol Sci, 21 (3).
p. 1162.
ISSN 1422-0067
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21031162
SGUL Authors: Thilaganathan, Baskaran
Abstract
Several studies have shown that women with a preeclamptic pregnancy exhibit an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms are unknown. Animal models are essential to investigate the causes of this increased risk and have the ability to assess possible preventive and therapeutic interventions. Using the latest technologies such as speckle tracking echocardiography (STE), it is feasible to map subclinical changes in cardiac diastolic and systolic function as well as structural changes of the maternal heart. The aim of this work is to compare cardiovascular changes in an established transgenic rat model with preeclampsia-like pregnancies with findings from human preeclamptic pregnancies by STE. The same algorithms were used to evaluate and compare the changes in echoes of human and rodents. Parameters of functionality such as global longitudinal strain (animal -23.54 ± 1.82% vs. -13.79 ± 0.57%, human -20.60 ± 0.47% vs. -15.45 ± 1.55%) as well as indications of morphological changes such as relative wall thickness (animal 0.20 ± 0.01 vs. 0.25 ± 0.01, human 0.34 ± 0.01 vs. 0.40 ± 0.02) are significantly altered in both species after preeclamptic pregnancies. Thus, the described rat model simulates the human situation quite well and is a valuable tool for future investigations regarding cardiovascular changes. STE is a unique technique that can be applied in animal models and humans with a high potential to uncover cardiovascular maladaptation and subtle pathologies.
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© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: |
animal models of human disease, cardiovascular dysfunction, preeclampsia, pregnancy, speckle tracking echocardiography, 0399 Other Chemical Sciences, 0604 Genetics, 0699 Other Biological Sciences, Chemical Physics |
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: |
Academic Structure > Molecular and Clinical Sciences Research Institute (MCS) |
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Int J Mol Sci |
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1422-0067 |
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eng |
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10 February 2020 | Published | 3 February 2020 | Accepted |
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Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 |
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32050556 |
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https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/111673 |
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https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21031162 |
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