Summary: Cardiac microthrombi have been variably identified at autopsy of Covid-19 decedents. Little is known about the morphologic and molecular changes associated with cardiac microthrombi and whether predictive biomarkers exist. We sought to determine the prevalence, pathogenesis, and biomarker risk factors of Covid-19-associated cardiac microthrombi. In addition to histology and immunohistochemical analyses, we investigated right verticles from 8 Covid-19 decedents via single nuclei RNA sequencing for cell-type specific transcriptional differences between hearts with and without microthrombi, as well as between Covid-19 decedents and publicly available non-Covid-19 donor controls.
Overall Design: Compare differential gene expression in right ventricles of fatal Covid-19 hearts between patients that developed microthrombi and those that did not.
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Extract Protocol: | Nuclei were isolated from flash frozen post-mortem cardiac tissue for microfluidic encapsulation using 10X Genomics' 10X Genomics Chromium Controller v3.1 Next GEM Single Cell 3'. Approximately 100mg of tissue was sectioned to a thickness of 100um then subjected to differential centrifugation and filtering. |
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Molecule Type: | polyA(+) RNA |
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Platform: | ILLUMINA |
Instrument Model: | Illumina NovaSeq 6000 |
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Data Resource | GEN Sample ID | GEN Dataset ID | Project ID | BioProject ID | Sample ID | Sample Name | BioSample ID | Sample Accession | Experiment Accession | Release Date | Submission Date | Update Date | Species | Race | Ethnicity | Age | Age Unit | Gender | Source Name | Tissue | Cell Type | Cell Subtype | Cell Line | Disease | Disease State | Development Stage | Mutation | Phenotype | Case Detail | Control Detail | Growth Protocol | Treatment Protocol | Extract Protocol | Library Construction Protocol | Molecule Type | Library Layout | Strand-Specific | Library Strand | Spike-In | Strategy | Platform | Instrument Model | Cell Number | Reads Number | Gbases | AvgSpotLen1 | AvgSpotLen2 | Uniq Mapping Rate | Multiple Mapping Rate | Coverage Rate |
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