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學經歷
國立陽明大學
國際研究生分子醫學學程
自我介紹(目前的職業狀況)
My study interest is in the field of cardiac hypertrophy. Cardiac hypertrophy can be classified by the cardiac function, causes and molecular mechanism into two categories: physiological and pathological cardiac hypertrophy. For example, the fetal gene reprograming is a distinct feature of pathological cardiac hypertrophy; however, we find those fetal genes, such as atrial natriuretic factor (ANF), β-myosin heavy chain (β-MHC), are not expressed on every cardiomyocyte in the pathological hypertrophic heart. I desire to know what makes cardiomyocytes from a single heart have different phenotype. Taking advantage of the transgenic mouse line which can express yellow fluorescent protein (YFP) tagged β-MHC fusion protein, I am trying to analyze the gene or protein expression pattern to characterize the YFP positive and negative cardiomyocytes. I am using transverse aortic banding (TAB) and neurohumoral infusion to induce pathological cardiac hypertrophy in YFP-β-MHC transgenic mice. Meanwhile, I will use several approaches and techniques, such as fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS), next generation sequencing (NGS), immunofluorescence assay, western blot and qPCR to analyze the gene/protein expression. This study can help us to understand more mechanism in cellular level, and hopefully may help us to discover a better way to treat the cardiovascular disease.