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. 2022 Nov 9;13:6762. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-34434-y

Fig. 6. METTL14 knockdown could alleviate cardiac dysfunction in I/R remodeling.

Fig. 6

a The relative mRNA m6A level in murine hearts with or without I/R remodeling (n = 4/group). b Representative western blot and statistical data of METTL14 expression levels in the I/R 3w mouse hearts compared with sham surgery (n = 6 mice/group). c Schedule of virus injection and myocardial I/R injury-induced mouse pathological cardiac remodeling model establishment. d Representative western blot and statistical data of METTL14 expression levels in mouse hearts treated as indicated (n = 6 mice/group). e The relative mRNA m6A level in I/R 3w murine hearts infected with METTL14 knockdown or scrambled control AAV9 (n = 4/group). f Representative echocardiographic images and left ventricular ejection fraction (EF), ventricular fractional shortening (FS) of mice injected with AAV9-cTnT-shMETTL14 or scrambled control at day 21 after I/R surgery (n = 7, 8, 14, and 10 mice, respectively). g Representative images of H&E staining (Top, scale bar: 50 μm) and WGA staining (Bottom, scale bar: 20 μm). h Quantitative analysis of cross-sectional area of cardiac cells stained with WGA of ventricular myocardial cells in mouse hearts treated as indicated (n = 7, 8, 14, and 10 mice, respectively). i Representative images of Masson’s trichrome staining and quantification of fibrotic area (%) in mouse hearts treated as indicated (n = 7, 8, 14, and 10 mice, respectively). Scale bar: 50 μm. j qPCR analysis of Anp, Bnp, β-Mhc, and α-Sma mRNA levels in mouse hearts treated as indicated (n = 7, 8, 14, and 10 mice, respectively). I/R, ischemia-reperfusion. Echo, echocardiography. AAV9-cTnT-shScr, cardiac-specific troponin-T promoter-driven Scramble AAV9; AAV9-cTnT-shMETTL14, cardiac-specific troponin-T promoter-driven METTL14 knockdown AAV9; WGA, Wheat Germ Agglutinin; H&E, Hematoxylin & eosin. All data are expressed as means ± SD. d, f, h, i, j Two-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s post hoc test; a, b, e independent-sample t-test, two-sided. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.