The effects of death and post-mortem cold ischemia on human tissue transcriptomes

Nature Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Ferreira, Pedro G ^a,b   Muñoz Aguirre, Manuel ^c,d,e,f   Reverter, Ferran ^c,d,e,g   Sá Godinho, Caio P ^h   Sousa, Abel ^a,b,i   Amadoz, Alicia ^j   Sodaei, Reza ^c,d,e   Hidalgo, Marta R ^k   Pervouchine, Dmitri ^c,d,e,l   Carbonell Caballero, Jose ^m   Nurtdinov, Ramil ^c,d,e   Breschi, Alessandra ^c,d,e   Amador, Raziel ^c,d,e   Oliveira, Patrícia ^a,b   Çubuk, Cankut ^k   Curado, João ^c,d,e   Aguet, François ⁿ   Oliveira, Carla ^a,b   Dopazo, Joaquin ^j,k   Sammeth, Michael ^h   Ardlie, Kristin G ⁿ   Guigó, Roderic ^c,d,e   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c BARCELONA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^e INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^h FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

ⁱ EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^j Igenomix SA ^*  (Spain)

^k HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

^l SKOLKOVO INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^m CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

ⁿ BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; BLOOD; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADRENAL GLAND TISSUE; AORTIC TISSUE; ARTERIAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREAST TISSUE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTICAL TISSUE; COLD ISCHEMIA; COLON TISSUE; CORONARY ARTERY TISSUE; ESOPHAGUS MUCOSA; ESOPHAGUS TISSUE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS TISSUE; ILEUM TISSUE; KIDNEY CORTEX TISSUE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MINOR SALIVA GLAND; OVARY TISSUE; PANCREAS TISSUE; PROSTATE TISSUE; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA SEQUENCE; SIGMOID; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN; SMALL INTESTINE TISSUE; SPLEEN TISSUE; STOMACH TISSUE; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; TESTIS TISSUE; THYROID GLAND TISSUE; TIBIAL ARTERY; TIBIAL NERVE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TISSUES; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TRANSVERSE COLON; UTERUS TISSUE; VAGINA TISSUE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEATH; FEMALE; GENETICS; MARKOV CHAIN; METABOLISM; POSTMORTEM CHANGE;

BLOOD; COLD ISCHEMIA; DEATH; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; RNA, MESSENGER; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85042028817     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-02772-x     Document Type: Article

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