Miao Jiakun, Zhang Kaiyi, Yang Yu, Xu Shuang, Du Juan, Wu Tianwen, Tao Cong, Wang Yanfang, Yang Shulin
State Key Laboratory of Animal Biotech Breeding, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing 100193, China.
iScience. 2024 May 16;27(6):110015. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.110015. eCollection 2024 Jun 21.
Cardiac damage is widely present in patients with metabolic diseases, but the exact pathophysiological mechanisms involved remain unclear. The porcine heart is an ideal material for cardiovascular research due to its similarities to the human heart. This study evaluated pathological features and performed single-nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq) on myocardial samples from both wild-type and metabolic disease-susceptible transgenic pigs (previously established). We found that transgenic pigs exhibited lipid metabolism disturbances and myocardial injury after a high-fat high-sucrose diet intervention. snRNA-seq reveals the cellular landscape of healthy and metabolically disturbed pig hearts and identifies the major cardiac cell populations affected by metabolic diseases. Within metabolic disorder hearts, metabolically active cardiomyocytes exhibited impaired function and reduced abundance. Moreover, massive numbers of reparative LYVE1 macrophages were lost. Additionally, proinflammatory endothelial cells were activated with high expression of multiple proinflammatory cytokines. Our findings provide insights into the cellular mechanisms of metabolic disease-induced myocardial injury.
心脏损伤在代谢性疾病患者中广泛存在,但其中确切的病理生理机制仍不清楚。由于猪心脏与人类心脏相似,因此是心血管研究的理想材料。本研究评估了野生型猪和代谢性疾病易感转基因猪(先前已培育成功)心肌样本的病理特征,并进行了单核RNA测序(snRNA-seq)。我们发现,高脂高糖饮食干预后,转基因猪出现脂质代谢紊乱和心肌损伤。snRNA-seq揭示了健康猪心脏和代谢紊乱猪心脏的细胞图谱,并确定了受代谢性疾病影响的主要心脏细胞群。在代谢紊乱的心脏中,代谢活跃的心肌细胞功能受损且数量减少。此外,大量具有修复功能的LYVE1巨噬细胞缺失。此外,促炎内皮细胞被激活,多种促炎细胞因子高表达。我们的研究结果为代谢性疾病诱导心肌损伤的细胞机制提供了见解。