Low myocardial transcript variant alt-a of cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor p21 expression differentiates hypothermia from cardiac/respiratory causes of death
Kaija, Helena; Pakanen, Lasse; Porvari, Katja (2020-02-03)
Kaija, Helena PhDa; Pakanen, Lasse MD, PhDa,b; Porvari, Katja PhDa,c,∗ Low myocardial transcript variant alt-a of cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor p21 expression differentiates hypothermia from cardiac/respiratory causes of death, Medicine: February 2020, Volume 99, Issue 9, p e19399 doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000019399
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Abstract
Gene expressions in the myocardium have been shown to vary between different causes of death, which can be utilized in the recognition of varied processes. Our previous work with a limited number of cases showed a high messenger ribonucleic acid expression of the transcript variant alt-a of cyclin dependent kinase inhibitor p21 (p21 alt-a) in chronic cardiac ischemia deaths and a low expression in hypothermia deaths and acute myocardial ischemia deaths. In present work, p21 alt-a expression in the myocardium of human cadavers was calculated using glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) as reference gene. In this collection of 143 samples, the p21 alt-a expression was significantly lower in hypothermia than in chronic cardiac ischemic heart disease with (P < .001) or without (P < .001) acute myocardial infarction and in other cardiac and respiratory disease deaths (P < .000). Chronic ischemic heart disease in hypothermia cases did not increase the expression. The p21 alt-a expression did not correlate with postmortem interval, quality of RNA or with the age of the deceased. The p21 alt-a referenced to GAPDH expression in cadaver myocardium has apparent potential as a marker distinguishing between hypothermia and cardiac/respiratory diseases as causes of death.
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