Biological Ageing Of Skeletal Muscle Endothelial Cells & Responsiveness To Vegf-A: Role Of Epigenetic Writer Ezh2

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dc.contributor.advisorRoudier, Emilie
dc.contributor.authorEssue, Dayna Olivia
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-10T10:52:40Z
dc.date.available2025-04-10T10:52:40Z
dc.date.copyright2024-12-10
dc.date.issued2025-04-10
dc.date.updated2025-04-10T10:52:40Z
dc.degree.disciplineKinesiology & Health Science
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMSc - Master of Science
dc.description.abstractIn the older population, the loss of small blood vessels (capillaries), known as rarefaction, precedes muscle atrophy. Aging alters the capacity of endothelial cells, the main constituents of capillaries, to form new blood vessels through angiogenesis. Epigenetics has emerged as a new research area to uncover how an ageing phenotype is acquired. Through this project we investigate how the epigenetic writer Enhancer of Zeste Homologue 2 (EZH2) regulates the pro-angiogenic pathway downstream of vascular endothelial growth factor-A (VEGF-A) and its receptor 2 (VEGFR-2) in skeletal muscle microvascular endothelial cells (SMECs) using an in-vitro model of aging. Our results suggest that EZH2 activity might restrain angiogenesis by impairing the expression of genes downstream of the VEGF-A pathway, such as Nr4a3 and Egr3. Our findings indicate that EZH2 potentially supports vascular aging. Yet, caution is required as in-vitro models, such as passaging, fails to reproduce all aspects of aging, more particularly senescence in primary cells
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/42834
dc.languageen
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dc.subject.keywordsAging
dc.subject.keywordsBiology
dc.subject.keywordsEndothelial cells
dc.subject.keywordsAngiogenesis
dc.subject.keywordsVEGF
dc.subject.keywordsEGR3
dc.subject.keywordsEpigenetics
dc.subject.keywordsBivalence
dc.titleBiological Ageing Of Skeletal Muscle Endothelial Cells & Responsiveness To Vegf-A: Role Of Epigenetic Writer Ezh2
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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